Example sentences of "[vb past] made his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 62-year-old star could forget the punks who 'd made his day as Dirty Harry . |
| 2 | He 'd made his fortune selling baths , bidets and toilets , which lent him little by way of mystique . |
| 3 | Senga blinked back tears , " he told me he loved me and that he 'd come back for me when he 'd made his fortune and could afford to take me away . " |
| 4 | He 'd made his bed when he left ; that was unlike him , but then the sober man was neat and organized . |
| 5 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |
| 6 | He 'd made his decision . |
| 7 | Why , he 'd made his feelings more than clear out in France , had n't he ? |
| 8 | She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads … |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't owe me any explanations , ’ Caroline had answered politely , although she 'd wanted to laugh in his face because he 'd made his little speech at nine in the evening , dressed in a dinner suit on his way out of the door . |
| 10 | A Middleham entrepreneur , he 'd made his money in sugar , apparently , before cleaning up with Hazelhurst 's soap . |
| 11 | Brian Harley had made his one mistake at the sixteenth by finding both a fairway bunker and one by the green and was still standing at four under . |
| 12 | President Ortega had made his commitment to the February poll before UNO existed , Mr Lacayo said . |
| 13 | Like many Welshmen in and around the Neath and Swansea valleys , he had made his way from the more rural communities of West Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshire , up the valleys towards Brecon , and then moved eastwards towards the concentration of new industries at Dowlais , Merthyr , Rhymney , Tredegar , Beaufort , Ebbw Vale , and Pontypool . |
| 14 | He had made his debut for Guyana ( then British Guiana ) in 1963–4 as a nineteen year old , and joined Lancashire in 1968 . |
| 15 | The first Antiguan to play Test cricket , Roberts had made his debut during Denness 's tour , the first of the unending stream of top-class fast bowlers which has transformed modern cricket . |
| 16 | As this was the first item on the agenda , the Prime Minister made her appearance at ten thirty-three , immediately after the Chairman had made his announcement . |
| 17 | When Abudah had made his way through this slimy cavern he emerged upon a mountain top in the clean air . |
| 18 | Justin 's language about the distinction of the Father as God transcendent from the Son as God immanent , which Irenaeus had made his own , precipitated sharp debate ( the so-called monarchian controversy ) at Rome c. 190–225 . |
| 19 | Overcome by greed , she murdered him while he slept , only to discover he was her own son , who had made his fortune and wanted to surprise her . |
| 20 | He had made his name with two earlier Mozart productions at the Kroll Opera in Berlin with Klemperer . |
| 21 | Unless of course the car had been moved again after Harry had made his unscheduled reappearance . |
| 22 | When he had made his mark , she drew a small packet of fragrant sweets called cachous from her cuff and gave him one . |
| 23 | By 15 , Barenboim had made his debut as a pianist in London , Paris and New York . |
| 24 | Capt Anderton had made his final approach with the helicopter 's tail rotor pointing towards the crane , which was out of his sight . |
| 25 | While at the other extreme the Christ on the cross was not the Son of God who had made his peace , who had just sighed , ‘ All is accomplished , ’ but the still-human man whose body was racked in agony . |
| 26 | His mother and father told themselves that he was only six and was bound to change , but the incident that had made his grandfather King already coloured his life . |
| 27 | Mike Sadler was flown straight back to the Eighth Army and assigned the task of navigating the New Zealand Division around the south of the Mareth line , while Cooper was able to enjoy the pleasures of Constantine with an old friend , Reg Seekings , who had made his way through after the B Squadron attacks on the road . |
| 28 | A man who had made his name by his own imagination and energy , not in just one skill but three : as choreographer , as deviser of revues and other shows , as director of a company that he had brought from obscure provincial competence to world-wide acclaim . |
| 29 | His deeds had made his name synonymous with victory ; the Almoravids feared and hated him ; he had overcome all his enemies and won his way back to the position of Alfonso 's vassal — although , in fact , he overshadowed the King in such a way that Alfonso virtually faded from the scene in the next few years . |
| 30 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |