Example sentences of "he make the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too … |
| 2 | Then , as a concession , he made the call to summon the transporter . |
| 3 | Mr Mynott said a radio had been playing loudly in the office from which he made the call , but neither Mr Major nor Mr Clarke appeared to notice . |
| 4 | Operators earn 28p a minute for peak rate calls and 16p for cheap , with British Telecom charging the person who is responsible for the bill whether he made the call or not . |
| 5 | Then slowly Father McGiff raised himself back to a kneeling position and , taking off his spectacles , he made the sign of the cross before closing his eyes in prayer . |
| 6 | " Humph , " muttered Gabriel at this , and he made the sign of the cross . |
| 7 | He made the turn in one under par and was joined in a battle with the Spanish machine Jose Miguel and a few other golfers for the places from third downwards . |
| 8 | The owner of Hummingbird House might be a surprisingly artistic , cultured hedonist , but here was a man , she decided , who liked the good things in life and did n't care how he made the money to acquire them … |
| 9 | As a septuagenarian , he made the trip to Ireland on the back of his son Eon 's motor-bike to find the Killarney Fern — long since believed gone from its single recorded site on Moel Hebog in Snowdonia . |
| 10 | At the Witney Conservative Club , Mr Hunt explained why he made the trip down to Oxfordshire : |
| 11 | He made the gravy , Paul ? |
| 12 | and he made the gravy and he |
| 13 | When he moved from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Nottingham he made the journey down the A1 for better fishing and the chance to learn from big name anglers . |
| 14 | Again he made the journey on 4th with the ‘ Miller 's cart ’ to prepare . |
| 15 | The fact was , that he made the journey ; shabby and penniless , he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns ; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship , for Dad was a simple , trusting person , one might say , naive . |
| 16 | He made the journey along with the 26-odd winning captains from the recent past , including ‘ Monsieur Rugby ’ Jean Prat ( Lourdes ) , and to the most successful captain in the history of French club rugby , Béziers scrum-half Richard Astre . |
| 17 | He had a full scrip of the small white flowers when he made the journey for the seventh time , and saw the three riders pace in at the gatehouse , and stood unobserved to watch Tutilo dismount , part amicably from his guards , and come wearily towards the gatehouse door , as if he would himself take the key and deliver himself dutifully back to his captivity . |
| 18 | The evidence of the available texts and manuscripts is against such an emendation , however , since none of them has such a reading ; and it seems more likely that Ibn Hajar means no more than that Molla Fenari was in his twenties when he made the journey to Egypt . |
| 19 | To return to Molla Fenari , one can not then determine with any certainty the date of his journey to Egypt since it is impossible to assert confidently which of the seemingly contradictory facts or sets of facts-Ibn Hajar 's statement that he made the journey in 778 , Taskopruzade 's statement that he went in company with Seyyid Serif , Taskopruzade 's association of Seyyid Serif 's arrival in Karaman with Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's death , and so on-deserves most weight , though perhaps the specific nature of Ibn Hajar 's date argues in its favour while , equally , the slight suspicion which always attaches to attempts to associate great figures of the past argues against the association of Molla Fenari and Seyyid Serif . |
| 20 | ‘ It is incredible that he made the mis-statement about Ohio other than wittingly and dishonestly . ’ |
| 21 | He took care of him and the Greek verb means that he literally took total charge of his case , in other words he probably stayed up all night nursing him , and so he made the inn into temporarily a nursing home and we 're back into another area of the Board 's concerns . |
| 22 | He made the reference after being asked what the Conservatives would do about law and order during a question and answer session at Hummersknott School , Darlington . |
| 23 | He made the reference after being asked what the Conservatives would do about law and order during a question and answer session at Hummersknott School , Darlington . |
| 24 | Leonard was full-blooded , physically and temperamentally , and these teenage years saw him active in a wide range of sporting interests : cycling ( one of his favourite pastimes then ) , skiing , swimming , canoeing , sailing and ice-hockey ( in which he made the school team ) , boxing and wrestling , though he was very little involved in the last two . |
| 25 | Darwin was not the first to marvel but he made the notion of such adaptedness scientifically respectable by providing an explanation of how it might have come about . |
| 26 | He made the notion sound endearingly old-fashioned . |
| 27 | He 's not the only one — but he made the mistake of telling it to the Washington Post . |
| 28 | THOMAS SHADWELL was a successful dramatist in his own day , but he made the mistake of picking a quarrel with John Dryden . |
| 29 | He made the mistake of turning round , stumbled and fell on one knee and then rose , sobbing in terror as he clawed his way to the main gate , hammering on it with all his might . |
| 30 | Unfortunately he made the mistake of undoing his straps before force-landing in the water and was thrown forward , breaking his nose on the remnants of the windscreen as one of the Messerschmitts passed low overhead . |