Example sentences of "he [vb past] to make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Search parties and helicopters were alerted after he failed to make a rendez-vous . |
| 2 | In today 's attack one of the shot workmen was hit as he tried to make a run for it at Gortree Park where a major housing renovation scheme has been under way since before Christmas . |
| 3 | He tried to make a set which could be taken on a motor bike . |
| 4 | It is almost certain that he would have had to take evasive action to miss Roddymoor 's houses and likely too that he tried to make a pond to douse the licking flames . |
| 5 | Instead , he tried to make a joke of it . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ he tried to make a joke of it . |
| 7 | He tried to make a connection between this and something he had heard , or read , about the illusion of the face in a looking-glass in that famous picture — by Goya was it , or Velasquez — some Spaniard , no — was Velasquez Spanish , was n't he making a mistake there , was n't he Italian ? |
| 8 | First he threw down his training bib , then he tried to make a point to coaches Dino Zoff and Giancarlo Oddi . |
| 9 | Out of his family 's travails he helped to make a fastness of domestic security — Cis , Ifor and the barricades of brothers , sisters , cousins , aunts , ever-open houses … out of the outwardly unpromising landscape of a war-battered , low-waged steel , coal and chapel culture he took a fine voice , musical knowledge , a skill in many sports , a love for learning : and he never forgot that a few shillings would and did make the difference between dignity and pity , poverty and decent comfort . |
| 10 | He did n't kiss Lyn , he never touched women , or men either for that matter , but he seemed to make a principle of shrinking from the touch of women . |
| 11 | He seemed to make a habit of charging through her life and leaving destruction in his wake . |
| 12 | Tradition has it that , after King Ladislau lost the Battle of Varna in 1414 , he vowed to make a pilgrimage around the world armed as a Knight of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai . |
| 13 | On return to his Californian studio , he determined to make a Centipede just like those he had seen in his travels . |
| 14 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |
| 15 | If he was working for only two days every week it would be ten weeks before he began to make a profit . |
| 16 | He began to make a collection of brass rubbings . |
| 17 | He declined to make a decision on whether persons responsible for the shooting should be prosecuted and forwarded it to the Attorney General for the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | As I have said , he started to make a try at listening , but all the evidence is that the public is very deeply worried at standards in our schools and at the under resourcing of education , crumbling schools , lack of books and , frankly , the very low morale of very many teachers . |
| 19 | The antisemitism in Vienna made his appointment to a university professorship difficult , but as he had married when he had returned from Paris in 1886 he needed to make a living . |
| 20 | He strode into the room and picking up the kettle with an old cloth he proceeded to make a pot of tea . |
| 21 | The Rangers defender slipped and fell over as he went to make a routine interception and Atkinson advanced forward to place the ball through Roberts ' legs into the net . |
| 22 | Thinking that he preferred to make a career in journalism , after failing his second professional examination in 1882 , he signed on as an able seaman , went from Port Mackay to the South Sea Islands to study the traffic in Kanaka islanders , and published his findings in the Melbourne Age , arousing considerable controversy . |
| 23 | Eventually he had to make a choice between management and working full time in front of the cameras — so he resigned at Villa . |
| 24 | Anyway , he felt he had to make a decision on the next show for the Kings . ’ |
| 25 | The senior Law Officer of the Crown , the Attorney-General , explained to the House that , on the question of the Shops Act 1950 , he had to make a decision based not on party politics but on the law . |
| 26 | So , unless he planned to lie there until nightfall , which would rule out any possibility of his getting up to town to give his evening 's performance , he had to make a move . |
| 27 | He had to make a living and to do this , in common with many other painters , he painted ‘ postcards ’ , which were numerous , repetitive , and dull . |
| 28 | Dustin refused , not only because he had not seen the very different Warner , which the director had , but he justifiably felt he had to find his own direction , even if he had to make a number of detours on the way . |
| 29 | When he wanted to make a phone call , he overcame the problem of looking up names and numbers by using a push-button telephone with a number memory . |
| 30 | He wanted to make a person people would love — a little man of courage and kindness , a ‘ gent ’ down on his luck — and the character became loved all over the world , as well as making all the world laugh . |