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

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1 If he believes he should make new law democratically , in the spirit of the present legislature or the present climate of popular opinion , he might turn to past decisions as evidence of what the legislature or public is likely to think or want , for example .
2 He should make that point forcefully to Mr Adams the next time they meet .
3 She was insistent in case there should be a separation that he should make some form of , of proper financial arrangement for them , a legally binding agreement .
4 When he returned home very tired on the Saturday evening she turned on him and began nagging him again about the possibility of a separation and that he should make proper commitment to her .
5 He should make short work of his rivals in Ayr 's opener ( 2.0 ) .
6 If the hon. Gentleman is seeking to make a charge against me , he must make that charge equally against the chief veterinary officer for raising that issue in the first place .
7 Well , tomorrow he must go , she would tell Mr Grenfell first thing in the morning that he must make other arrangements and then he would be out of her life forever .
8 Secondly , he must make sure Hirst knuckles down and gets his feet back on the ground .
9 He must make some progress , he thought , impose some order on the chaos which faced him or Burnell would not need to order his departure from Scotland .
10 With reluctance , Morton decided that he must make another attempt to identify the dead girl .
11 JOHN BARNES last night faced up to the fact that he must make speedy progress to avoid a long spell in the international wilderness .
12 Perhaps he 'll make some jewellery for you , one day . ’
13 All along Zen had been haunted by the idea that he might make some blunder which would hang over him for the rest of his life , yet here he was behaving like a dope addict .
14 Nobody could deny Mr Gummer this small triumph , but he might make more friends if he did n't always insist on making such a meal of it .
15 Otherwise defender Darren Wassall may begin to wonder if he might make more money by doing something else at Wembley tomorrow .
16 He acknowledged that ‘ having him loose does raise the potential that he might make more mischief , take to the hills and be very hard to find ’ .
17 The Exercises were ill-received , and Gassendi seems to have decided that he might make more headway against the Aristotelians by systematically presenting an alternative point of view , rather than by direct argument against them .
18 The notion that he might make any joke , except an obscene one , I dismissed without a second thought .
19 With quality technicians creamed off from other studios , he could make cheap films so that they looked good and brought in a respectable profit .
20 His research into the possible use of guerrillas led him to champion preparations for all types of irregular operations , although he could make little headway against the traditional thinking of those directing military operations .
21 As a result during the rest of the summer he could make little headway against the officials whom Henry left in charge of Aquitaine when he once again turned his attention to the north .
22 He could dance as well as fight , and he could make polite conversation .
23 He proved that he could make that journey on a primitive craft .
24 He could make substantial increases in the severe weather payments scheme .
25 Some months earlier , in the autumn of 1182 , young Henry had once again asked his father to give him a principality , Normandy , so that he could make proper provision for his own knights .
26 Meanwhile , Andy had discovered windsurfing and that he could make more money in a day teaching it than he could in a week in his other job .
27 It had to go because he could make more money having erm the three caravans on the site that this occupying .
28 He traced its origin to his former position in the trade union movement ( hinting that he had an agreement to go back to the TUC where he could make more trouble for any government if they pressed him hard ) .
29 He said that he did it because everybody wanted him to do it , and he even agreed with me that bits were like Simon and Garfunkel and it sounded like a hundred songs written before , and admitted that he was cashing in on the moon landing but thought he could make some money doing it .
30 He suggested that I might give a dinner to the leading newspaper editors and proprietors , when he could make some statement calculated to neutralise some of the undoubted venom that was then directed at him .
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