Example sentences of "but he make [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard him draw in breath sharply , but he made no other sound . |
| 2 | But he made no double-edged comment in return , simply said , ‘ Tell me of America , McAllister . |
| 3 | Fred had been helping to rescue a family trapped in a cellar when a collapsing beam held him trapped by his left arm and leg for several hours , but he made a good recovery . |
| 4 | it was like a maze , and he said to me Raymond you leave it to me , I 'll build these cheap as possible , but he made a good , the principle was |
| 5 | He could n't speak because of her hand , but he made a negative-sounding grunt . |
| 6 | The worst bit was coming over the runway for the landing when I felt that I was no longer in control , but he made a perfect landing … a great landing for anyone , but incredible for someone who had never flown before . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But he made a great mistake fleeing the country . |
| 8 | Culley thought that too , but he made a last try . |
| 9 | He did not , but he made a different one . |
| 10 | Next door , the Archdeacon 's shower was not quite hot enough , but he made the best of it . |
| 11 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 12 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 13 | There was surprise expressed when Downey was included in the semi-final line-up but he made an invaluable contribution in the second half through his positional sense and slick distribution . |
| 14 | Luke 's eyes flashed angrily at her sneering tone , but he made an evident effort to control himself . |
| 15 | But he made an astute appeal to the self-interest of Conservative MPs concerned about government unpopularity by making his prime focus the poll tax . |
| 16 | He exaggerates when he speaks of a ‘ deafening silence , from historians on the land question , but he makes a strong case for placing the land issue near the centre of any sound historical analysis of the period . |
| 17 | But he makes a lively film and he will be heard of again . |
| 18 | It is a pity that Michael Coe 's essay on Maya hieroglyphs is not illustrated , but he makes the interesting point that vessels appear to be labelled much as they were in the classical world of the Mediterranean . |