Example sentences of "he [verb] make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , Mr Yeltsin and Mr Gorbachev before him have made more concessions to the western powers than any Russian leader since Lenin in 1918 accepted the Russo-German treaty of Brest-Litovsk . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Like his predecessors he failed to make any headway . |
| 4 | Suddenly he tried to make some sexual advances . |
| 5 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 6 | Every time he tried to make any kind of serious statement or speech for years thereafter , people came back to the plants . |
| 7 | He has made that very clear . ’ |
| 8 | No manager , in any half-decent company , is able to get away with claiming that he has made all the improvements it is possible to make . |
| 9 | All-seeing , all-wise , all-present , self-existent , He has made all things well for ever and ever . |
| 10 | Could he explain how , in the following five or six years , he has made such a massive transformation ? |
| 11 | Thirty five today , there would be no better birthday present than the sort of start he has made each time he won here — a 66 in 1980 and a 68 in 1983 . |
| 12 | He has made several big mistakes . |
| 13 | This is his second year at Leeds , and he has made several appearances in the Reserves . |
| 14 | He has made some good films and he is a good ambassador for the industry . ’ |
| 15 | His Mother tells me that he is of a mechanical turn , and I know that he has made some progress in mathematics . |
| 16 | He has made few speeches and passed no Bills . |
| 17 | ( Palace , 18 , £10.99 ) Rocky V Brain-damaged after beating the Russian drongo Drago and penniless after being K O 'd by a bent accountant , Rocky ( Sylvester Stallone ) has no option : he has to make another film . |
| 18 | If he pays in first and then has to make an interim payment and he wants to make that payment out of the money in court , he must ask specifically for leave to do so and also to amend his notice of payment in so as to refer to the fact that some of the money has been paid out . |
| 19 | The worker , we concluded , is caught in that he wants to make some investment in work , even though the ends sought may be quite diverse by different workers , and , at the same time , is always caught in a situation where he has to experience feelings of resentment . |
| 20 | After all the moving I think he wants to make this his last club . ’ |
| 21 | How often had he struggled to make that distinction on canvas ? |
| 22 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 23 | Turned out the last time the staff had seen him he was a student here and he 'd made such an arsehole of himself they 'd sworn they 'd never let him back in ! |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | THE unemployed can do without Peter Lilley 's daft comments as he plans to make more people jobless . |
| 26 | Characteristically , he refuses to make any secret of his work with Brown , whose Olympic drugs ban has one more year to run ; nor , in loyal fashion , does he have any doubts that Brown will return to competition and go straight to the top . |
| 27 | ‘ In the normal course of events these things take time under French law , and they 're likely to take even longer in this case because he refuses to make any move whatever until you are actually there — in France . ’ |
| 28 | Typically though he refuses to make any outrageous predictions , except to offer the view that it will take time to get the club back up and running . |
| 29 | Mr. Stern : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he intends to make any proposals to alleviate the impact on the ports of south Wales of proposed barrage schemes . |
| 30 | How was he going to make this phone call ? |