Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end he stopped bothering to make any pretence of cuddles , it became fucking pure and simple . |
| 2 | Once or twice he 'd — well he 'd tried to make some sort of advances to her . |
| 3 | It was disquieting , though , the way he seemed to have to make these excuses to himself , as if his conscience which he had , so he thought at the age of sixteen , successfully buried , had suddenly reawakened to plague him , not about the fundamentals of belief and morality but about such comparative trivialities as whether or not one should attend the church bazaar . |
| 4 | When he did try to make some real contribution to society , it seemed that all he got for his trouble was The Prince was too sensitive , too intelligent , to play the part mapped out for him , the part that his courtiers were there to help maintain . |
| 5 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 6 | He had planned to make this tour in January , but postponed it because of the Gulf war . |
| 7 | It was a week now since Clarion Call had vanished and , despite backup from Roquelaure , he had failed to make any progress in tracing the whereabouts of the directors of Spidex International Trading . |
| 8 | He now says that he does love his girlfriend , he does want to make that relationship work , and he 's very hopeful of making a reconciliation . |
| 9 | but he 's still got to come up , he 's got to make this thing , I mean it 's gon na be enormous with football 's . |