Example sentences of "he [verb] make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner he planned to make a proper start on sorting out the contents of the house . |
| 2 | Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument . |
| 3 | Terry Long was always a welcome visitor to Selhurst Park , but it was an enormous pleasure to everyone connected with Crystal Palace when he agreed to make a public return here in October 1984 to give recognition to Jim Cannon , who is the one man to have played more games for us than Terry himself did . |
| 4 | He invented the morning press conference for the purpose of calling an afternoon press conference to say he expected to make a shattering announcement later in the day . ’ |
| 5 | Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter . |
| 6 | At the same time he tried to make an economic case for expenditure in that area : ‘ Moreover , from the trade point of view , this area was probably worth between one and one and a half million employed men to this country . |
| 7 | Even though the gift was subject to a reservation Mr X must pay tax at half the Sched 1 rates as he has made a chargeable transfer . |
| 8 | Had he kicked three more penalties during the Bledisloe Cup series instead of watching them rebound off the posts or miss by a whisker , Fox 's average would have been identical to Hodgkinson 's twenty-eight points from his last two matches amounts to ample proof that he has made a complete recovery from the doldrums of Dublin last October when he spoke of retirement in the immediate aftermath of the All Blacks losing their titles . |
| 9 | He has made a great contribution to anchoring the art of architecture to real life , real science and real modernity … |
| 10 | He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here . |
| 11 | Even for those of us who admit that he has made a rational choice on this occasion , it remains surprising that he has benefited so little from experience , that he has never made , or let God or society make for him , any previous decisions on general issues which could be of help to him . |
| 12 | During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts . |
| 13 | Robson , who watched Rocastle last Saturday , said : ‘ He has made a good start to the season . |
| 14 | You may also be shown how to guide his arm movements , if he has made a good enough recovery to practise these correctly . |
| 15 | The courts are generally concerned only with the question whether the promisor has made a bargain , not with whether he has made a good bargain . |
| 16 | He has made a major contribution to public understanding of science through his books , lectures and broadcasts and through the Exploratory . |
| 17 | Is the more optimistic forecast to be made of the dutiful immature girl who has some mildly appreciative responses , knows her books and has paid careful attention to what she has been told to think , but who has few independent ideas and writes with neither firmness nor joy ; or of the mature and independent boy , who may not have studied his notes or perhaps his texts so thoroughly , but who has a sense of relevance , whose judgements are valid , who writes with assurance and betrays in his style … that he has made a genuine engagement with the literature he has encountered ? |
| 18 | ‘ He has made a remarkable recovery and was working last night , addressing the British Musical Society . |
| 19 | New Leicestershire 's offer of a two-year contract , starting in 1993 , has been accepted and , in the meantime , he has made a prolific return with them in the one-day competitions . |
| 20 | Fleischmann has had some excellent ideas including methods to measure the surface diffraction of X-rays and he has made a detailed study of electrolysis in solutions that do not conduct electricity . |
| 21 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 22 | ‘ But he 's so brave he has made a wonderful comeback . |
| 23 | In the week that council leaders meet for the annual conference of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in Dunblane , he has made a further appeal for a less confrontational relationship , and one which puts people and the quality of services before politics . |
| 24 | Keen to integrate the building into everyday life , he has made a diagonal route through it to encourage its use as a short-cut , and has redesigned the square outside , down to recreating the original pattern of Roman paving . |
| 25 | For although Piper 's manager Frank Warren thinks Benn believes he has made a big mistake in selecting Piper as a first challenger and does n't fancy the job , I suspect the opposite is true — he may think it is going to be too easy . |
| 26 | He has made a big impact this season and gives us a much better chance of succeeding against Stuttgart . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm glad to say he has made a full recovery , sir . ’ |
| 28 | But now he has made a full recovery to the delight of his proud parents , Fred and Denise . |
| 29 | He has made an understandable decision to Americanise the story , just as Disney did with European fairy-tales like Pinocchio and English classics such as The Jungle Book . |
| 30 | He has made an impressive start though to DIY , successfully wallpapering a cupboard — inclusive of feature border ! |