Example sentences of "he make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He made easy copy and journalists loved his accessibility . |
2 | He made that noise that men who drink beer make , and wiped his mouth on the back of his wrist . |
3 | He made that sign of two fingers laid across two fingers . |
4 | Totally competent in his mind and lucid when he made that decision ? |
5 | He made that decision having listened to representations from hon. Members from Northern Ireland . |
6 | I 've gone clean off him — ever since he made that pact with Stalin and the ghastly Russians . ’ |
7 | trembling when he made that speech when he remember when he , remember when you , you were n't there , no you were n't there he was shaking like a leaf . |
8 | ‘ The Admiral was n't able to adduce anything new in evidence when he made that allegation . |
9 | Buy by god he made that woman come in there . |
10 | It can only be surmised that the Marquis was feeling pretty flush after a good win when he made that entry into his accounts , or the caddie was a highly favoured young man indeed , for four shillings at that time would have been over the top on the percentages that a caddie can expect from his round nowadays . |
11 | Because he made that statement when discussing the concentric spheres with which Aristotle had built the cosmos , he was evidently aware that authoritative world-pictures were not inviolable . |
12 | Of course after he made that statement he did n't realize that the London Region were gon na put a thousand pound in the bucket ! |
13 | Point of order , point of order , can Mr give any written evidence that the leader or Thamesdown Borough Council , in a meeting with him as leader of the Labour group on this council , that he made that statement ? |
14 | It 's gone to it 's got to a stage where he made that statement which he very very much means , he will never ever give them another album of his to market worldwide . |
15 | Kamara had no great love for Scottish strikers ; in April 1988 he made legal history as the first English League player to be fined in court for an on-pitch assault . |
16 | He made great play of all the tasks in the Casa Guidi he had been left to do — furniture to repair , decorations to see to — but to Wilson 's experienced eye they would not have occupied an energetic person more than a month at the most . |
17 | Upon his Roman nose , a tiny pair of gold-rimmed spectacles might have seemed insignificant — but he made great play with them . |
18 | He made great play of the Opposition never , as he put it , having supported the consumer . |
19 | In Edward III 's wars in Scotland in the 1330s he made great use of hobelars and mounted archers who were paid more and required more expensive equipment than foot soldiers . |
20 | In classifying them he followed Aristotle in considering as many characters as possible ; but he made great use of the ‘ principle of correlation ’ , the way in which all the parts of an animal work together . |
21 | While they ate he made polite conversation , avoiding with care any of the deeper , more important issues that needed to be talked about and resolved . |
22 | He combined a cold approach with references to emotive issues like the Boer War , he spoke in a matter-of-fact way , he made clever use of sarcasm at the expense of opponents , and he recognized the value of a decisive attitude that would be firmly grasped by a party audience . |
23 | He made good progress until February 1992 when he was readmitted with a febrile illness and a tender mass in the right side of his neck , which was thought to be infective , but had not resolved despite treatment with flucloxacillin . |
24 | He made good use of every piece of newspaper that he could pick up and every convenient hedgerow ! |
25 | He made good use of the opportunity , bringing his horse round the outside of two leaders on the final bends to hit the front before the last . |
26 | He appealed to most New Zealand judges simply because he made good use of the blindside , mixed up his passes and kicks and generally gave the impression that he could play the percentages very much in the New Zealand fashion . |
27 | Had he been more self-assertive he might have risen higher in politics , but in his chosen field he made good use of his wealth and talents . |
28 | Miller won 41 per cent of the total vote , a proportion which reflected the skill with which he conducted a campaign in which he made good use of the experience gained during his 16 years as lieutenant-governor . |
29 | He made good speed down to the river , and then there was a path to aid him as far as the mill . |
30 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |