Example sentences of "he [is] make a " in BNC.

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1 In course of time he finds that he is the pet antipathy of his superior officers , that he is made a butt for the amusement of other men on parade , and that if there is any unpleasant work or unpopular bear or point going vacant it falls to his lot to fill it .
2 They first describe the work of love as a double edged activity with positive and negative effect — purging sin and kindling the heart , clearing the soul and removing anger and sloth , wounding in love and fulfilling with charity , chasing off the devil and extinguishing fear — and then level out to the strongly stressed affirmation which defines the positive potential of the negative statement in chapter one " he hase noght Jhesu Criste , he tynes all he has , and all he es , and all he myght gete " ( 85.19 – 21 ) for he that has " Jhesu " grows through prayer to the fulfilment of human potential : heaven is open to him and he is made a " contemplatif man " .
3 Remarking that Dostoevsky 's The Idiot does not altogether ‘ come off ’ , he is making a coherent and discussable point , whether or not one accepts it .
4 If Looking on the Bright Side ( 1932 ) is sometimes spoilt by the fact that the director , Basil Dean , seems to be under the impression he is making a sophisticated Hollywood musical , the scenes in the tenement block where Fields and her songwriter lover first meet are genuinely stirring .
5 She wrote , with an unaccustomed fluency , which made her sister wonder if the words had been thought up by her alone , that : — it would not be good for Oreste to leave here at this moment since he has been ill and though he is making a good recovery the doctor who you can be sure I was quick to call and no expense being spared but your money put to good use has said it would injure his general well-being to travel in his weakened state .
6 Every time a writer opens his notebook , or puts a blank sheet in a typewriter , he is making a journey to a young blind woman . ’
7 Michael Gillingham tells how he is making a comeback after the dreaded telephone call
8 Thus , when a doctor asks for an X-ray or path lab test , or prescribes drugs , or decides that a patient should remain in hospital for a further two days , he is making a financial as well as a clinical decision .
9 He is making a commendable effort to appear nonchalant and relaxed , despite the oversize top hat in his hand and the obtrusive stunted tree and rustic stile provided by the photographer , Mr. G. Diviani , in his Holloway Road studio opposite the Caledonian Church .
10 But he is making a remarkable recovery .
11 Does it follow that he is making a statement , reporting his mental act of knowing , as opposed to doing something ?
12 By the conceit he is making a serious point : his poetry is repetitive because the virtues of the Friend are semper eadem .
13 He is not claiming that representations have their causal significance only in some societies or in some epochs , but he is making a general assumption about psychological functioning and , thereby , about human nature .
14 He is making a swan .
15 He says he is making a movie with Italian sex kitten La Cicciolina , who was elected to the Italian parliament in 1987 .
16 What John is doing in each situation is very much the same : he is making a pronouncement about something .
17 If my right hon. Friend is fortunate enough to be in the circumstances described by the hon. Gentleman , he is making a far larger contribution as an individual to income tax and other central Government taxation than would otherwise be the case .
18 [ Saddam Hussain ] hopes to produce splits or cracks in the position of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council , he is making a mistake . "
19 Mr Stern 's costings tell him it is not worth paying more than £750/acre for bare arable land if he is to make a reasonable living .
20 He 's made a remarkable recovery , ’ Sister Cooney said .
21 ‘ Well all I 'm tellin' you , Pat , is that he 's made a lot of enemies .
22 ‘ People call him a clown after he 's made a mistake , but in my mind he 's a master goalkeeper .
23 He 's made a few of the lads sit up , and now they 've got to take a good , hard look at themselves . ’
24 ‘ Then he 's made a profit , ’ said Miss Jarman , winking at her .
25 And he 's made a beautiful one for me , so I 'm happy about it . ’
26 President George Bush said : ‘ I do n't know what Saddam 's doing , but he 's made a big mistake .
27 ‘ Uzzell is now unemployed and injured , and he 's made a complaint to us about Kelly , which we 'll report to the FA . ’
28 Saddlers manager Kenny Hibbitt said : ‘ I always knew he had quality and he 's made a tremendous start to his career . ’
29 Although he 's made a series of mistakes in the transfer market only he will decide on his departure from the City Ground .
30 She says : ‘ He 's made a big difference to my being able to get through it .
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