Example sentences of "make his [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 15 , Barenboim had made his debut as a pianist in London , Paris and New York . |
| 2 | Labour 's new Scottish spokesman George Robertson has made his debut in the Commons by calling Scottish Secretary Ian Lang a pick pocket . |
| 3 | Labour 's new Scottish spokesman George Robertson has made his debut in the Commons by calling Scottish Secretary Ian Lang a pick pocket . |
| 4 | On a less sombre note , Philip — Pat 's better half and General Factotum , has made his mark as an Archer — of the bow and arrow type — not the Radio soap opera . |
| 5 | Brum based Brian Travers , producer and director of musical films for many years , and well known saxophonist in the internationally renowned band , UB40 , has already made his mark on the music industry . |
| 6 | Ironically , all five Treviso tries ( Rovigo scored two ) were scored by forwards , an obvious hint that the master of backplay , Pierre Villepreux , has not yet made his mark on the team 's playing pattern . |
| 7 | I am sure O'Grady would have made his mark on the Centre Court of Wimbledon . |
| 8 | She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads … |
| 9 | But man also has made his mark in the many ancient monuments , castles and churches that dot the countryside and small villages . |
| 10 | But plainly a man who has made his mark in the world , if he is already being sent for . |
| 11 | Before Dom Pérignon had made his name as a great winemaker , the effects of sparkling Champagne had achieved sufficient significance in England to merit the occasional mention , as the following verse from The Man of Mode , written by Sir George Etherege in 1676 , indicates : |
| 12 | The career of Miller had been that of a classic party functionary rising to PUWP central committee secretary and politburo member , whereas Kwasniewski , who came up through the editorship of party youth wing newspapers to become Minister of Youth and Sports from 1985 , had made his name as a pragmatist and advocate of co-operation with Solidarity in the 1989 round table talks . |
| 13 | He left Congress in 1991 , having made his name as a specialist in immigration work for individuals and businesses . |
| 14 | He may have made his name with a story from British history , but that was simply calculated opportunism as he showed by following with similar , though less amusing and successful , treatments of the lives of Catherine the Great ( 1934 ) and Rembrandt ( 1936 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ian St James , who organizes and finances the awards , has made his fortune as a best-selling author . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had made his escape on the day he later confronted her father in the yard . |
| 19 | When two policemen arrived , one man had run away and the other had made his escape in a car . |
| 20 | Thus speaks a man who has made his reputation in the pop genre . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | With just the aid of a walking stick he had made his way to the Blue Boar followed by most of the kids in the village , who must have thought he was some sort of God . |
| 23 | ‘ In the last few minutes one of the party of missing students — ’ Kath let out her breath on a gust ‘ — has made his way to the surface , and he has told us that there are still two men trapped below here , ’ he announced in the earnest voice of sepulchral doom so favoured by reporters at the scene of an incident . |
| 24 | I watched as my dear man made his way across the tarmac to the small Doha airport . |
| 25 | Having made his way into the main draw via six rounds in the preliminary and qualifying competitions , he fell just short of a major upset in the first round proper . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Like many Welshmen in and around the Neath and Swansea valleys , he had made his way from the more rural communities of West Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshire , up the valleys towards Brecon , and then moved eastwards towards the concentration of new industries at Dowlais , Merthyr , Rhymney , Tredegar , Beaufort , Ebbw Vale , and Pontypool . |
| 28 | While the preparations for the fair were in progress , the young man made his way from the green to The Drover 's Arms by way of Lulling Woods . |
| 29 | Within the city were two altars , a basin on a column , and at the further end a house : Antenor 's , who had made his peace with the Greeks and was spared . |
| 30 | The effect of section 87 is to ensure that a qualified member of the tenant 's family who has made his home with the tenant shall not lose his home when the tenant dies but shall succeed to that home and to the secure tenancy which protected both the tenant and the successor while the tenant was alive and which shall continue to protect the successor after the death of the tenant . |