Example sentences of "he made [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He made a macabre figure standing there with wires up his nose and the whites of his uprolled eyes showing through his empty faceplate . |
2 | If he kens you too , then it will be a re-union , if not … ’ he made a clicking sound with his tongue . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He made a good recovery and in February this year was able to undergo an operation to replace both hips . |
8 | He made a good world . |
9 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
10 | He made a good living from his extensive knowledge of breakbeats and old funk records , and eventually Beats International evolved quite naturally out of his love of DJing . |
11 | He made a good living , and seemed resentful of his wife 's decision to take in a lodger . |
12 | After that no studio would touch him , although he made a good living as an actor and was even reunited with Gloria Swanson to recount more glorious days in Sunset Boulevard . |
13 | Alan was dominating in the air and solid and reliable in the tackle , so that he was a perfect defender for a team marshalled by Manager Dick Graham and he made a major contribution to Palace 's progress , deservedly becoming Palace 's captain while also earning England Under 23 honours . |
14 | Trials at his collieries of new ventilating methods , such as the fan and high-pressure steam jets , were widely discussed , and he made a major contribution to the most efficient method of mining coal simultaneously in adjacent seams . |
15 | The few surviving reports of cases heard in King 's Bench during the period he was a justice ( 1295–1316 ) do not suggest that he made a major contribution to the work of the court . |
16 | He made a major contribution to production methods in the railway 's workshops and to the use of improved metallurgy , in locomotive and rolling-stock construction , as well as being an advocate of the use of superheated steam and compound expansion to increase locomotive power and efficiency . |
17 | To their credit , Malone responded well and grabbed a deserved try from Colin Wilkinson when he made a typical burst into the back line and scored under the posts with aplomb . |
18 | He made a complete idiot of himself over that , and I swear it was n't done deliberately . |
19 | Following penicillin and cefotaxime administration he was transferred to the intensive care unit , where he made a complete recovery . |
20 | He made a forward movement which obliged her to make way . |
21 | He made a rough shape that was neither a cube nor a sphere , but a wet and hollow lump . |
22 | Where he made a famous name |
23 | In Paradiso , composed between 1317 and 1320 , he made a famous reference ( 24. 13–15 ) to the striking-train of a clock : |
24 | But last Thursday he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene . |
25 | Last Thursday , however , he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre-left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene . |
26 | He made a spectacular series of prints after Constable landscapes and Constable himself provided hands-on involvement in five of them . |
27 | In City terms he could claim some credit , along with Peter Walker , as the father of modern unit trusts , while he made a personal profit of £1 million from the sale of Cannon Insurance , the UK vehicle of the disgraced Bernie Cornfeld . |
28 | The worst bit was coming over the runway for the landing when I felt that I was no longer in control , but he made a perfect landing … a great landing for anyone , but incredible for someone who had never flown before . ’ |
29 | He made a perfect landing and taxied towards the hangars where half a dozen men waited in Luftwaffe overalls . |
30 | He made a loud noise through his cavernous nostrils . |