Example sentences of "he [verb] make [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Largely because of absentee owners , the gardens at Shotover have changed remarkably little ; Sir John Miller has n't changed much either , though he has made his own — living — additions to the grounds . |
| 2 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |
| 3 | In 1952 in northern Greece he began making his own systematic digs , which a quarter of a century later would lead him to the royal treasures . |
| 4 | He liked to make his own discoveries and follow his own direction , but their father had insisted upon a more rigorous approach . |
| 5 | At the Harris , Harris and Overdene Christmas party three years ago he had made what some considered to be the funniest impromptu speech anyone had ever heard inside the office . |
| 6 | Beethoven learnt more from Haydn than from anyone , and all that he had made his own from that study is put to fascinating use here ; but the music is no reversion , and has its own lightness and gaiety . |
| 7 | If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation . |
| 8 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 9 | He had made his own translations of one of the Psalms and Prayers of Cardinal John Fisher [ q.v. ] ( although his theological books show a Puritan tendency ) and of ‘ The Life and Death of Edward II ’ , and he had part of the original manuscript of the Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | The garden had been built by his great-great-grandfather , but , like his father and his father 's father , he had made his own small changes to the original scheme , extending the garden to the north , so that it now filled the whole of the ancient island of Manhattan . |
| 11 | So he had to make his own product . ’ |
| 12 | He had to make his own terms . |
| 13 | Further , he appealed for action in a field he wished to make his own , the " war on poverty " . |
| 14 | Anyhow it 's four runs for who is now eight , and he 's made them both in four , but , his two fours , eight , when you get three fours , two fours I think and a three in his first innings of eleven . |
| 15 | He seems resigned to a shortened climbing career , but content that he 's made it all . |
| 16 | Yeah I know and he started munching it and he 's made it all soggy . |