Example sentences of "he [verb] made a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the pestilence is raging , he buys the threshing floor of Araunah for 50 shekels , an altar is built and , after he has made a sacrifice , the pestilence ceases . |
| 2 | Monte Samana is his , I know that now , and he deserves his profits , because he has made a holiday place that sits on the side of the hill as though it were set there by the Spaniards themselves , the Andalusians and the descendants of the Moors . ’ |
| 3 | There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps Martin Edwards will admit that he has made a mistake selling to the person he has done and the way in which he has sold it . |
| 5 | I asked Ulu Grosbard , who knew Nichols , to ask him what he felt about me : ‘ I think he feels he has made a mistake . |
| 6 | Nichols does feel he has made a mistake . ’ |
| 7 | If the arrest is lawful but the accused believes it to be unlawful , he is guilty because he has made a mistake of law : Bentley ( 1850 ) 4 Cox CC 406 . |
| 8 | Even if he has made a mistake they are still bound by it . |
| 9 | After meeting staff he has made a plea to agency chiefs to delay the transfer so that full consultations can take place . |
| 10 | Like his men , he has made a blanket-roll to carry immediate necessities rather than burdening himself with a blanket bag or other form of knapsack . |
| 11 | If the wishes of the dead person are known , namely if he has made a will , the process will be easier , but it will still take some ti me to go through all the necessary procedures . |
| 12 | He has made a string of good speeches , written — unlike those of most ministers — mainly by himself , charting the future for Britain and its beleaguered Foreign Office . |
| 13 | He has made a score of films since , including his infamous documentary about the Rolling Stones 's 1972 tour , which the Stones suppressed because of its depiction of drug use and sex . |
| 14 | Sec. knows that he has made a step towards a quorum on the next occasion . |
| 15 | Since then , he has made a succession of movies , from ‘ Mean Streets ’ and ‘ Alice Does n't Live Here Any More ’ to ‘ Raging Bull ’ and ‘ Goodfellas ’ . |
| 16 | In drawing a miner he has made a self-portrait . |
| 17 | He has made a counter claim . |
| 18 | Judging by the enthusiasm of the men , women and children who all work on the dam and piped-water project , he has made a start . |
| 19 | He should postpone reading it until he has made a start with the study of a case-law subject like Constitutional Law , Criminal Law , Contract or Tort . ] |
| 20 | Having done this , after carefully considering his actions , he has made a statement which may well become the accepted ethic of Lakeland/British climbing . |
| 21 | Monsieur Erdle denies this absolutely ; he has made a statement — which , of course , will be verified — accounting for his movements from nine o'clock until well past the estimated time of death . ’ |
| 22 | I recall that two years ago at the NFT he announced that his great ambition as a young man had been to become a movie director : now ( aided by director of photography William Lubtchansky and production designer Chloe Obolensky ) he has made a landmark television film . |
| 23 | And he has made a lot of easy promises that he has not yet had to keep . |
| 24 | But he has made an exception for Frank . |
| 25 | ‘ He says he does n't screw his employees maybe he has made an exception in my case . ’ |
| 26 | If , however , the observed changes are not what was predicted , then he has made an error but he has also learned because he must now modify his view of the situation accordingly . |
| 27 | The point that no one in government seems to have grasped is that the businessman who spots what he thinks is a gap in the market and retools his factory , only to find that he has made an error of judgment , loses his own money and learns his lesson . |
| 28 | If he has used it to swell his bank balance , it will be presumed that , in drawing on that balance , he has drawn out his own money before touching trust money ; if he has made an investment with trust money — even an investment which is itself a breach of trust — that investment is still trust property , to which the trustees ’ creditors have no claim . |
| 29 | He has made an allegation , and I expect him to substantiate it . |
| 30 | Within three and a half seconds he 'd made a couple of marks on the paper and shoved it back . |