Example sentences of "[adj] year he [verb] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years he had made a practice of writing to government departments about the grievances of seamen , addressing these also to prominent persons and sending copies to the press . |
| 2 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 3 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 4 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
| 5 | There was something unique about a hospital over the Christmas period , and most years he 'd made a point of working for as much of it as he could . |