Example sentences of "he [vb past] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had centre front stage , his voice projected forward over Therese 's , and he ceased to make any attempt to act out the plotted movements with her . |
| 2 | Like his predecessors he failed to make any headway . |
| 3 | He tried to make small talk but got no replies . |
| 4 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 5 | Every time he tried to make any kind of serious statement or speech for years thereafter , people came back to the plants . |
| 6 | He 'd made major strides in establishing the kind of company he wanted , which was n't the kind of company David wanted , and I think David saw that when he got to New York . |
| 7 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 8 | ‘ But whenever we left him in his cot and then went back to him , we 'd notice that he 'd made terrible scratches on his face with his fingernails and he would rip the backs of his legs with his toes . |
| 9 | He 'd thrown rocks at windows of offices and works they 'd sacked him from , he 'd defaced buildings , scratched officials ' cars and mutilated bonnet mascots ( though that was largely for his own safety ) and he 'd made bomb-hoax telephone calls . |
| 10 | He learnt to make excellent cheeses — they fetched good prices in Athens . |
| 11 | In the summer of 1945 he began to make more use of the enormous scope that the interim regime gave him to shape the future of the country . |
| 12 | Help with management skills , communication skills and language games improved their relationship and he started to make good progress in his language and his general behaviour . |
| 13 | He thought to make some tea . |
| 14 | He went to make Turkish coffee and he said through the door , you 're misleading . |
| 15 | He kept making desperate swimming movements , feebly threshing the water trying to pull himself free . |
| 16 | ‘ In the seven days we worked together , he kept making sexual advances , ’ she says . |
| 17 | He did make one slip , of course — referring to Kemijärvi . |
| 18 | Unlike the Mantuan and Ferrarese madrigalists , Marenzio composed mainly for the pleasure of the performers themselves , not for courtly audiences listening to brilliant executants , though he did make some essays in the three-upper-part style associated with the Ferrarese ladies , notably the exquisite ‘ Hor chi Clori ’ in his Sixth five-part book ( 1594 ) , and he must have reckoned on good performers to tackle the chromaticisms of ‘ O voi che sospirate ’ ( Book II , 1581 ) . |
| 19 | In the event , he did make some contribution to Toby and Laura 's education . |
| 20 | Mr Jones said : ‘ He did make reference to the letter in the speech that he made and he did make positive noises but whether they will translate into positive actions we 'll have to wait and see . ’ |
| 21 | Women were easily captivated by Charles , when he bothered to make any effort to captivate : they humbly smiled when he turned his head to pay them attention . |
| 22 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 23 | Not that he had made much progress on anything else . |
| 24 | Naturally , he had made extensive preparations , but could n't be absolutely certain they would work . |
| 25 | This charge against Latimer was almost certainly baseless , though it is more difficult to assess whether he had made undue profits for himself out of the campaign in Brittany . |
| 26 | He had made good use of the last few days . |
| 27 | He had made many contacts , many friends , and as he quickly learned the technicalities such as paper-sizes , weights , and the varying processes involved , the business was rapidly developing . |
| 28 | He had made many attempts to put his arms around me , but I had always evaded him . |
| 29 | THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury admitted yesterday he had made many mistakes during his two years in office . |
| 30 | The New York Times demonstrated how he had made little impact on the movie world , until that point in time , with the observation that the lawyer Hanson was ‘ … played by Jack Nicholson whose sharp , regular features may be vaguely familiar to kids who go and watch drive-in movies . ’ |