Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] made a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has already made a long statement , and you are letting him get away with it . |
| 2 | As it happens ’ — Morse consulted his watch ostentatiously — ‘ he is very shortly due to take off from Kennedy Airport to fly back to Heathrow , and he has already made a substantial confession about his part in the strange circumstances surrounding the Wolvercote Tongue and Dr Theodore Kemp . |
| 3 | He has also made a record profit on the trams in the year he has been here ’ . |
| 4 | He has also made a film telling young people not to do the same . |
| 5 | This ‘ gorgeous gargoyle ’ ( thespian O'Toole 's ) description ) might have played more Tests had Underwood not been around , but he has still made a wide impression on the game , made more lasting by this unexpected offering . |
| 6 | In fact , he has continually made a point of recording that he was not a boy from the wrong side of the tracks , as some tried to indicate , but that his mother/grandmother made sure they were well provided for . |
| 7 | Like his suitors , he has never made a BBC programme . |
| 8 | He 'd already made a very courageous statement condemning him |
| 9 | He 'd even made a series of phone calls to arrange a lift . |
| 10 | And he 'd just made a film and , we were watching something |
| 11 | There was no way of explaining this , no parallel that he could reach for other than to say : that he 'd once made a wish , and the wish now appeared to have come true . |
| 12 | He had even made a suggestion about a piece she might write on the role of women in the Tory Party , perhaps in the Government Whips ' Office . |
| 13 | Considering that he had just made a pointless journey of several thousand miles , the young man seemed remarkably equable and spent almost the entire journey sitting cross-legged , spooning purple yoghurt into his mouth from an enormous jar and reading a novel by Thomas Mann . |
| 14 | He had just made a pilot for what was hoped to be a series called Beyond Our Ken — although the Ken in the title was not he but one of the most respected performers on radio , Kenneth Horne . |
| 15 | It was , however , Minton 's habit to tire suddenly of young men he had previously made a fuss of , and Ricky was no exception . |
| 16 | A few hours previously he had reportedly made a videotape recording , accusing people of wanting to kill him . |
| 17 | Wells was requested to take the oath on whether he had actually made a statement , as the police seemed to have no record of it . |
| 18 | Faldo ticked a four on the 18th , written down by his playing partner Bernhard Langer , when he had actually made a five . |
| 19 | Yes , he had definitely made a mistake . |
| 20 | He had never made a secret of what he wanted from her , and pretending he enjoyed her company , pretending he wanted to laugh with her or show her his favourite places in Rome , was n't part of it . |
| 21 | The Minister was pictured beaming over his in-laws ' garden gate with the children about whom he had earlier made a plaintive ‘ keep them out of it ’ appeal . |
| 22 | Although Sherman had not used the keyboard , he had certainly made a combinatorial request . |
| 23 | He had suddenly made a serious error . |
| 24 | A wheelwright at marriage , he had subsequently made a successful career in the building trade , and by the 1830s was rated on no fewer than six houses in Gore Hedge — almost a third of the street . |