Example sentences of "his [noun] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He raised his hands , crossing his fingers to make a crucifix . |
| 2 | He went into his kitchen to make a pot of tea . |
| 3 | He had think lips , hardly any lips at all , really , and when he smiled his mouth made a square , and in that square were lots of other smaller squares of teeth . |
| 4 | ‘ Are n't you going to introduce me ? ’ he enquired shortly of Rosemary , while his eyes made a meal of Leith 's thick chestnut-coloured hair and her beautifully structured face and figure . |
| 5 | But Moloney 's mount was soon back in command when his rival made a nonsense of the second last jump , from where Whaat Fettle went on to record a splendid 10-length win . |
| 6 | The newly elected archbishop , Winchelsey , while sympathetic to the clergy , took a paternalistic view of the realm , which he saw threatened on three fronts , and urged his clergy to make a grant to the king . |
| 7 | Unfortunately David was killed when his glider made a crash-landing . |
| 8 | No , I did not mean that Dan Quayle is about to leap to his feet to make a key-note speech , or that Clive James is considering a follow-up television interview with Mrs Reagan . |
| 9 | His opponent made a throwaway gesture with his hands , gave a sheepish grin which was more a grimace . |
| 10 | The servos in his cheeks made a smile , although there was no flesh to pull . |
| 11 | No doubt Ferguson wants his team to make a fight of it , though presumably on more civilised lines than the tunnel punch-up which followed their last match here . |
| 12 | Often the toga was drawn over his head to make a veil , worn at the performance of religious rites . |
| 13 | The designs were by Hanns Ebensten , his last collaboration with John , because he gave up his ambitions to make a career in stage design after he had visited the homes of two other ballet designers , both highly regarded and much in demand , but both living in very modest circumstances . |
| 14 | His appointment makes a centenary worth noticing . |
| 15 | His breath made a cloud between them . |
| 16 | His hits make a roll of honour which stretches beyond just the charts . |
| 17 | The water dripped steadily from his anorak to make a puddle on the floor . |
| 18 | He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive . |
| 19 | Charles was probably justified in suspecting bad faith : he and his men made a swoop on Bernard , who narrowly escaped with his life , leaving his men to be killed or captured and his baggage-train seized . |
| 20 | His hand made a cutting , chopping motion . |
| 21 | This means that if an individual provides an opportunity to his trust to make a gain and the trust makes a gain the individual can be taxed under s776 . |
| 22 | Quite coherent and certain he saw his dad make a phone call from the instrument in the hall and then drive off in the car . |
| 23 | When frenzied he therefore has 6 attacks rather than 3 , plus 1 extra attack from his dagger making a total of 7 . |
| 24 | There was no necessary relationship between the real importance of a state and the willingness of its ruler and his representatives to make a fuss over things of this sort . |
| 25 | Fierce Eyes and his mother made a wall of snow around the mound . |
| 26 | I was thinking of Robins ' house and then my own before I left home ; his mother making a sailor suit , my mother forever — in retrospect , anyway — making patchwork quilts . |
| 27 | His companions made a rush at Cornelius . |
| 28 | Where a solicitor realises himself that he has been negligent or his client makes a claim against him on that ground , the client must be told of the circumstances ( if he is not already aware of them ) and be advised to seek independent advice . |
| 29 | Piatakov and his faction made a virtue of necessity . |
| 30 | When quad discs disappeared from the shops , he licensed Dolby Laboratories to use his technology to make a surround-sound effect from cinema films with stereo soundtracks . |