Example sentences of "[vb past] made his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sir George had made his impressive leap from the top of it ; she had made hers from fully three feet lower . |
| 5 | He had made his best friend aboard promise that he would not be buried at sea — something he had a great fear of — but on land . |
| 6 | He had made his right hand into a fist and was jabbing it up at the sky , feinting in the direction of the falling missile . |
| 7 | He might have been a minor orator , not quite in the senate , nor yet on the stage , more likely at the Bar of some prosperous provincial town ; in fact he had made his early and relatively modest pile in some wholesale business . |
| 8 | Before long , he had made his first links with staff in the bank 's Florida and Panama branches . |
| 9 | In February 1943 Wingate had made his first long-range penetration into North Burma , cut the railway in seventy places and crossed the Irrawaddy . |
| 10 | He had made his first apport as a teenager . |
| 11 | Asif Mujtaba had made his first Test half-century and seemed quite settled , while England will have felt apprehensive about Salim Malik after he was spared at 22 by Gooch at slip , low and to his left , off Lewis . |
| 12 | For Churchill had made his famous " Iron Curtain " speech on 5 March , and these were countries which lay beyond that barrier . |
| 13 | Unless of course the car had been moved again after Harry had made his unscheduled reappearance . |
| 14 | Capt Anderton had made his final approach with the helicopter 's tail rotor pointing towards the crane , which was out of his sight . |
| 15 | When we left him he was a linen draper and furniture warehouseman in Finsbury Square ; by 1818 he had made his final move to Windsor Terrace , an elegant row of houses on City Road , having by then become a silk manufacturer like his cousins . |
| 16 | Forty-four years later I visited the battlefield and saw skulls and bones in crevices on the rocky hillock where Negus Mikael had made his final stand . |
| 17 | He had made his millions by first cornering the estate-agency business in the gaudy resort , and then expanding throughout the north-west . |
| 18 | He could n't remember now what it was , but it had made his blazing mad . |
| 19 | She shivered as she went to the door , but all at once she recalled what she had been about to do when Benedict Beckenham had made his astonishing appearance . |
| 20 | It made her head ache and there had been a kind of knot in her stomach ever since her nephew had made his absurd announcement . |
| 21 | He wanted to settle , once and for all , the question of whether Riddle had made his last journey inside the Wheel and for that reason he was resolved to have it closely examined by an expert . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Beethoven learnt more from Haydn than from anyone , and all that he had made his own from that study is put to fascinating use here ; but the music is no reversion , and has its own lightness and gaiety . |
| 24 | If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation . |
| 25 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 26 | Such collaboration included participation in the campaign to free Henri Martin imprisoned for alleged subversive , anti-colonial activities , the publication of a series of enthusiastic reports on the Soviet Union following a visit to the USSR in 1954 , twenty years exactly after Nizan had made his own pilgrimage to the mecca of communism , and the production of a pro-communist play Nekrassov . |
| 27 | He had made his own translations of one of the Psalms and Prayers of Cardinal John Fisher [ q.v. ] ( although his theological books show a Puritan tendency ) and of ‘ The Life and Death of Edward II ’ , and he had part of the original manuscript of the Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | The garden had been built by his great-great-grandfather , but , like his father and his father 's father , he had made his own small changes to the original scheme , extending the garden to the north , so that it now filled the whole of the ancient island of Manhattan . |
| 29 | And for Jack Henry Moore , who had made his own commitment to sexual politics by coming out years before , the subject was now part of his past . |
| 30 | This need not have mattered so much if he had made his contextual analysis more rigorous . |