Example sentences of "he make [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walsh added : ‘ I expect James 's ankle to be right but I 'll probably start him from the bench and let him make an explosive entrance . |
| 2 | Let him make the first move . |
| 3 | A distressing failure in something which was important to him , athletic ability perhaps , may lead to him making a negative judgment about himself every time he experiences any difficulty in competitive activities in the future . |
| 4 | Try to persuade him to make a real effort to give up smoking — he may put on a bit of weight but he can tackle that later — and to eat frequent snacks throughout the day instead of two or three heavy meals . |
| 5 | In one instance , it was believed in the family that one sister had visited their father during his final illness and had persuaded him to make a new will in her favour , directing his hand as he signed it . |
| 6 | But it is also important to remember that the object of the 1790 visit was really Switzerland , traditionally the land of liberty ; Wordsworth never retracted his belief in the ideals of Switzerland , which helps to explain why , when France threatened Swiss independence in the late 1790s , it was necessary for him to make a decisive choice . |
| 7 | We do n't believe he was infectious before May 21 and we expect him to make a complete recovery . |
| 8 | Similarly circumspect , George Stephen granted Clarkson priority in time but underlined how Wilberforce 's prominence enabled him to make a public issue of the slave trade in a way Clarkson could never have done . |
| 9 | Philip Giles fell more than thirty feet onto a hillside while on holdiay in California but doctors expect him to make a full recovery . |
| 10 | Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style . |
| 11 | But those who expected him to make a significant impact on the British championship were soon to be disappointed . |
| 12 | Here the staccato ranges presumably from ‘ snow ’ to ‘ rain ’ but hardly to ‘ hail ’ It is here where , given the speed of Mozart 's writing , the exact character of the staccato was not important enough for him to make a conscious effort at graphic differentiation , and where , as a consequence , dots and strokes have the same meaning . |
| 13 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |
| 14 | Hotspur hung back from him , and let him gather himself , waited , indeed , for him to make the first assay , and put it by when it was made with the utmost care and forbearance . |
| 15 | If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move . |
| 16 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 17 | 1.59 The third ground for defending an application is that the defendant from whom the interim payment is sought is not a person who appears to the court to fall within one of the categories listed in Ord 29 , r11(2) , namely : ( a ) a person who is insured in respect of the plaintiff 's claim ; ( b ) a public authority ; or ( c ) a person whose means and resources are such as to enable him to make the interim payment . |
| 18 | He might decide to cross-examine both of us in an attempt to detect inconsistencies in our replies , or hope for some slip-up on our part which might enable him to make the correct identification . |
| 19 | She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else . |
| 20 | His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump . |
| 21 | If the hon. Gentleman genuinely thinks that services that are contracted out are of lower quality than those done in house , I invite him to make the short journey between the London boroughs of Lambeth and Wandsworth . |
| 22 | Then it would be up to him to make the next move . |
| 23 | Thomson 's entree to the court of Siam enabled him to make an important record of ceremonials there . |
| 24 | He made a macabre figure standing there with wires up his nose and the whites of his uprolled eyes showing through his empty faceplate . |
| 25 | If he kens you too , then it will be a re-union , if not … ’ he made a clicking sound with his tongue . |
| 26 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 27 | At the same time , he made a good contribution on the difficulty in which Labour will find itself , if it is ever in government , with its massive plans for overspending . |
| 28 | Fred had been helping to rescue a family trapped in a cellar when a collapsing beam held him trapped by his left arm and leg for several hours , but he made a good recovery . |
| 29 | He suffered another attack of pneumonia and , on medical advice , he spent the winter of 1905–6 in Egypt , where he made a good recovery . |
| 30 | He made a good recovery and in February this year was able to undergo an operation to replace both hips . |