Example sentences of "he [vb past] make [det] " 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 | Suddenly he tried to make some sexual advances . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A stolid , red-faced clergyman without wit or humour , he contrived to make any and every subject dull . |
| 11 | He thought to make some tea . |
| 12 | He offered to make all the arrangements , such as organize the travel and someone to look after the cattle for me , so I agreed . |
| 13 | Yahweh ( Exodus 3:13–16 ) is the God actively present with his people — but the moment he chose to make this known as when they , as doomed slaves , needed to be redeemed . |
| 14 | In the event , he did make some contribution to Toby and Laura 's education . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Not that he had made much progress on anything else . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had made many attempts to put his arms around me , but I had always evaded him . |
| 20 | THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury admitted yesterday he had made many mistakes during his two years in office . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | At a time when his health was failing , Hurter 's judgement was affected by emotional loyalty to the Leblanc process , to which he had made such valuable contributions in the past . |
| 23 | The Irish Times on Oct. 26 published a taped interview , dating back to May 1990 , in which Lenihan admitted he had made such a call . |
| 24 | Shelley watched them go , her heart full of admiration for his humanity and his talent — and bitterness because he had made such a fool of her . |
| 25 | For the next hour Fabia was alternately angry that he could take her to such heights only to call a halt when she responded too readily , and despair that he had made such a nonsense of her that she had n't known where the dickens she was . |
| 26 | He had made that appointment five days ago and it was one that he would keep . |
| 27 | Instantly she defended herself , just as she had when he had made that accusation before . |
| 28 | He had made that fact clear enough . |
| 29 | He added that he had made that decision in spite of an embargo on similar junctions after the Bellgrove train crash two years earlier . |
| 30 | On the following day , Ratsiraka said that he had made all the concessions he was able to make and would form a new government , with or without the opposition 's participation , within a week . |