Example sentences of "he [verb] made [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writer of the Book of Ecclesiastes declared : ‘ He has made everything beautiful in its time . |
| 2 | After he has made his first claim for Landor , Pound writes two paragraphs of the sort that have provoked near-apoplexy , because they have not been taken in the spirit that Pound intended : |
| 3 | Largely because of absentee owners , the gardens at Shotover have changed remarkably little ; Sir John Miller has n't changed much either , though he has made his own — living — additions to the grounds . |
| 4 | And he has made it clear that an all-German election should be held next year at the earliest , not as a quick substitute for the West German one in December . |
| 5 | It is even against the wishes of the Hon. Member for Tayside ( Mr. Walker ) , because he has made it clear that he does not want Stagecoach to succeed in his area . |
| 6 | He has made us nervous wrecks , ’ he said . |
| 7 | In fact , Joshua 's retirement to the safety of his estate had freed Dowd to wander until the old man 's demise , when he was drawn back to offer his services to Joshua 's son Nathaniel , only revealing his true nature once he 'd made himself indispensable , for fear he was trapped between his bounden duty and the zeal of a Christian . |
| 8 | She might be angry afterwards and certainly she 'd be terrified in case he 'd made her pregnant , but she 'd get over that . |
| 9 | At least he 'd made someone happy , he thought drily , regretting that he 'd snarled at the lad in front of him . |
| 10 | Like as not he would n't even recognize her , and he 'd made it clear she was merely one of a number of girls who accommodated him . |
| 11 | He 'd made it clear enough after all that he did n't expect her to hang about as he had another date . |
| 12 | He 'd made it clear right form the start just how he regarded her — as a brash and brassy nightclub singer , nothing else . |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't owe me any explanations , ’ Caroline had answered politely , although she 'd wanted to laugh in his face because he 'd made his little speech at nine in the evening , dressed in a dinner suit on his way out of the door . |
| 14 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |
| 15 | At the Harris , Harris and Overdene Christmas party three years ago he had made what some considered to be the funniest impromptu speech anyone had ever heard inside the office . |
| 16 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 17 | Benjamin was clearly an ambitious and careful man , neither dissolute nor spendthrift , and was probably very conservative in every way ; he had made himself respectable in Victorian terms , generating enough of a cash surplus by a lifetime of hard work and good fortune to build up that stock of 3 per cent Bank Annuities and accumulate a healthy balance with the London Provident Savings Bank . |
| 18 | He had made himself prime ministerial : adopting double-breasted suits and gold-rimmed spectacles , shortening his sentences and restraining his instinctive jerks of the head . |
| 19 | He looked at her carefully to see he had made himself clear , then resumed his search through the file . |
| 20 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 21 | She had been a walking ruin when she came to him , and he had made her better . |
| 22 | Should she tell him yes , he had made her pregnant , and see if he would give her a guinea or two to put it right ? |
| 23 | He had made her angry , afraid , excited . |
| 24 | He had made her whole body feel as though it would explode at the slightest caress from him . |
| 25 | Especially when he had made it crystal-clear where he stood with her . |
| 26 | But he had made it complete with fossils and dinosaur skeletons buried under the earth ; red herrings put there to expose those of little faith . |
| 27 | Susan could n't think of a film where he had made it alive to the end credits . |
| 28 | On being appointed prime minister in March 1992 , he had made it one of his priorities to ‘ lance the abscess of corruption ’ . |
| 29 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
| 30 | He added that he had made it clear to the IoT that the Faculty would be willing to explore co-operation over exams , but the IoT was not interested . |