Example sentences of "he make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He made easy copy and journalists loved his accessibility .
2 He made fourteen suggestions related to the recruitment and deployment of teachers .
3 He made all sorts of innovations during his short stay — only about a year — before moving on to King 's College , Cambridge , and starting the now famous service of nine lessons and carols at Christmas .
4 He made all sorts of wild plans .
5 And then he made all sorts of tactless remarks about the state of the body .
6 He made that noise that men who drink beer make , and wiped his mouth on the back of his wrist .
7 He made that sign of two fingers laid across two fingers .
8 Totally competent in his mind and lucid when he made that decision ?
9 He made that decision having listened to representations from hon. Members from Northern Ireland .
10 I 've gone clean off him — ever since he made that pact with Stalin and the ghastly Russians . ’
11 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 .
12 ‘ The Admiral was n't able to adduce anything new in evidence when he made that allegation .
13 Buy by god he made that woman come in there .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 !
17 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 ?
18 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 .
19 He made major contributions to the geology of Dalradian rocks along the Highland border between Callander and Loch Lomond and in the Cowal district of Argyllshire .
20 He made countless pots of tea , set and washed up tray after tray , helped the night junior hand round tea to the stunned , grey-faced rows of waiting relatives .
21 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 .
22 He made uncertain movements , because everything in his head was vague and uncertain .
23 He made small movements with his body , feinting this way and that , gauging Tuan Ti Fo 's response to each , a low growling coming from his throat .
24 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 .
25 Upon his Roman nose , a tiny pair of gold-rimmed spectacles might have seemed insignificant — but he made great play with them .
26 He made great play of the Opposition never , as he put it , having supported the consumer .
27 He made great efforts to include Dexter in the conversation , the sergeant noticed , embracing him in his replies .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 He made great promises for future dates but failed to ring the numbers they gave him .
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