Example sentences of "[vb infin] make his " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not removed his hand from her arm , or let her arm fall to make his hand fall too ; so he moved his hand to cover hers . |
| 2 | Lorton did n't trouble to make his voice civil . |
| 3 | I am sure that he will seek to make his own speech in the debate . |
| 4 | Pocock does , however , strive to make his building irregular , and it was primarily this feature of the Gothic that Jane Austen disliked . |
| 5 | Clelia , would you mind making his bottle ? " |
| 6 | Now let us look back to verse 20 of the lesson , to see how God can work to make His glory fill the church . |
| 7 | He may have made his name with a story from British history , but that was simply calculated opportunism as he showed by following with similar , though less amusing and successful , treatments of the lives of Catherine the Great ( 1934 ) and Rembrandt ( 1936 ) . |
| 8 | One recorded of its first drill , ‘ if only the Kaiser could have seen it it would have made his Imperial Hunship feel frightfully sick ’ . |
| 9 | A newspaper report that Lord Glenconner had spent over £500,000 on entertaining the rich and famous at his 60th birthday party a few years ago , must have made his hard-working forebears turn in their graves . |
| 10 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 11 | ‘ He could have made his contact , struck a deal . |
| 12 | Benjamin James Titford may or may not have made his fair share of mistakes as a young teacher ; but when the chance came of running his own show in a conducive environment , he took it with alacrity . |
| 13 | In a way she hoped he had not and yet , on the other hand , she believed the news would have made his final days very happy , however heinous the deceit with which she would always have to live . |
| 14 | ‘ That was a crucial error which could even have made his injury worse , ’ said Wilkinson . |
| 15 | Ernest was well off , having his share of the Jarvis family money , and there was no reason why he should not have made his school in some more attractive part of NW6 , up in the neighbourhood of Fortune Green for instance . |
| 16 | Had he known the truth it might have made his loss that bit more bearable . ’ |
| 17 | The deputy judge refused probate of the 1982 document on the grounds that it had not been duly executed in that , although the amendment by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 allowed a valid signature to be made otherwise than at the foot of the will , it had not altered the requirement that the testator should have made his will before signing it ; and that , in any event , the testator had lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 18 | The result of Kirk 's intervention , it seems , was that Robertson left his final version worded only in general terms , without the qualification which would have made his original intention clear . |
| 19 | Wagner 's suggestion that such a book would help to usher in a new " renaissance " must have made his advice irresistible . |
| 20 | Old ships never die and doubtless she is still knocking around the East Coast , though I suppose old Payne may have made his last port by now I should be interested in an oil painting on canvas , or board ( which I suppose would come a bit cheaper ! ! ) showing her beating around the Foreland under sail in fairly heavy weather , say Force 6 … ’ |
| 21 | No one could have made his feelings any clearer . |
| 22 | FitzAlan could not have made his opinion of her clearer , and yet for an insane moment there , shaken by his reasoned judgements of Stephen and Matilda , she had been tempted to confess the truth and beg for his help . |
| 23 | I am sure O'Grady would have made his mark on the Centre Court of Wimbledon . |
| 24 | If his brother Ulf was involved , as stated by Saxo Grammaticus and possibly lost northern sources , he too must have made his peace with Cnut , who allegedly had him assassinated in a church at Roskilde . |
| 25 | Now that David has decided he wants to stay and fight for his place , he will have made his job all the harder . |
| 26 | Someone ought to talk to Lily Bates , yes , that was what he had said and meant , but it might not have been him if he had n't seen her for himself that afternoon between five and six , the period between Hook Road School closing and Rose leaving her office at Belmodes ; the time Steve would have made his own . |
| 27 | The falsificationist must now try to make his hypothesis more precise so that it becomes more readily falsifiable . |
| 28 | Mr Reilly will have to make his own bureaucracy reform itself . |
| 29 | If he swam the river , he would have to make his way upstream well beyond the yacht and within sight of the bridge or be swept back down by the current . |
| 30 | Outside he stopped and realised that he would have to make his own way back . |