Example sentences of "make [pron] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Which are in the Rays of the Sun , which have made their abode in the Waters . ’ |
| 32 | Labour 's new Scottish spokesman George Robertson has made his debut in the Commons by calling Scottish Secretary Ian Lang a pick pocket . |
| 33 | Labour 's new Scottish spokesman George Robertson has made his debut in the Commons by calling Scottish Secretary Ian Lang a pick pocket . |
| 34 | But man also has made his mark in the many ancient monuments , castles and churches that dot the countryside and small villages . |
| 35 | But plainly a man who has made his mark in the world , if he is already being sent for . |
| 36 | The civil servant on Plowden 's team in charge of the power station construction programme was F. W. ( ‘ Bomber ’ ) Smith , who had made his name in the War by successfully stepping up aircraft production in Beaverbrook 's celebrated Ministry . |
| 37 | Jake , by contrast , quite independently of his father , who had also made his fortune in the building industry , had set up as a building contractor on his own . |
| 38 | Thus speaks a man who has made his reputation in the pop genre . |
| 39 | As chairman of the British Railways Board ( 1963–5 ) , Beeching had made his reputation in the public sector by the impressive way he had tackled the thankless job of modernizing the outdated rail network . |
| 40 | Only a sharp expression in the eyes suggested how he had made his way in the do-or-die world of modern publishing , where niceness gets you nowhere . |
| 41 | As an example , let us imagine that you have made your request/command in the manner described on page 66 . |
| 42 | " Oh God , " she was muttering , as she made herself tea in the empty kitchen . |
| 43 | The group believes that its collective strength will make it second in the software queue behind only Sun Microsystems Inc with its 141,000 seats to Sun 's estimated 241,000 single-user systems . |
| 44 | Leeds hope the Kiwi international will make his debut in the home clash with Hull KR a fortnight on Sunday . |
| 45 | Ipswich hope to have Shirra make his debut in the double header with King 's Lynn on Good Friday but by then Norris will have moved , and he is due to make his first appearance for the Eagles tomorrow at King 's Lynn . |
| 46 | He 'll make his way in the world all right . ’ |
| 47 | Pat Cash , out for eight months with an Achilles tendon injury , could make his comeback in the doubles at the Australian Open in Melbourne next month . |
| 48 | Bartram usually made his expeditions in the autumn when farm work diminished and when seeds in the wild would be ripe for collection and specimens best transplanted . |
| 49 | But no reported case has been cited to the court in which any judge in any jurisdiction has ever purported to order a doctor to treat a patient in a particular way contrary to the doctor 's will until Waite J. made his order in the present case . |
| 50 | A 4-metre ( 13-foot ) male bottlenose called Gabriel made his home in the river Dart and befriended children and adults . |
| 51 | He exhorts us to remember the virtue of Abraham who left the stability of Ur of the Chaldees and obeyed God and went and ‘ made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country ; he lived in tents . ’ |
| 52 | He made his home in the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo before marrying Mrs Harkness , an American . |
| 53 | Nero also made his proclamation in the stadium at Isthmia in a deliberate evocation of Flamininus , and adopted a bearded portrait at about this time . |
| 54 | This background is shared by other prominent politicians , notably the prime minister , Nikolai Ryzhkov , who also comes from Sverdlovsk and also made his name in the industrial bureaucracy . |
| 55 | He made his name in the 1950s as a prize-winning and rather racy novelist . |
| 56 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman made his name in the 1960s as a maverick historian who charged that only 30,000 people perished at the hands of the Ustashe fascists . |
| 57 | It co-stars Hugh Grant , 31 , who made his name in the film of E M Forster 's Maurice . |
| 58 | Lenny made his name in the unlicensed ring . |
| 59 | His earliest stage roles at Barnes and the Everyman in Hampstead in 1926 were in classic Russian plays but in 1928 , at the Little Theatre in London , he first made his name in the type of role which was to become his hallmark : that of the neurotic , greedy , sinister villain in A Man with Red Hair by Hugh Walpole [ q.v . ] . |
| 60 | Mr Bresslaw made his name in the TV comedy , The Army Game . |