Example sentences of "make [art] [noun] for his " in BNC.

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1 But those who had made the arrangements for his last moments were not surprised to find him self-possessed and resigned to his fate .
2 By the following morning my father and the doctor had made a plan for his escape .
3 ‘ I guess not , ’ the gardener answered , awkward at suddenly being made a spokesman for his generation .
4 It was Fleury who , remembering how he had made a visor for his smoking cap , found the solution by whipping his Bible out of his shirt and tearing the boards off .
5 The executive , who was made a CBE for his work in connection with Lockerbie , said he would be pleased to accept the honorary degree as a recognition of the selfless contribution made by all those involved .
6 The Association honoured him on his retirement with the award of a medal of honour and elected him as a Vice-President The following year he was made an OBE for his lifelong work for the deaf .
7 The Scotland international player Gordon Strachan , of Leeds United , was made an OBE for his services to football .
8 He was made an MBE for his services to schools cricket .
9 They had been told the main point — that Tildesley would make a profit for his ‘ warehousing ’ operation ( only fair , Le Roux claimed , since Tildesley took risks in buying the company , including the very real risk that Norton might never have raised the funds and he 'd stuck with FUS ) .
10 The early career of the great missionary John Wesley showed the problems facing Anglicans in an area without bishops ; when he went to preach in the newly-launched colony of Georgia from 1735 to 1737 the Church of England made no provision for his activity , and he went out attached to the Moravians .
11 B , the driver made no claim for his own injuries .
12 Still munching cheese , Paul made a dive for his coat only to be halted by his mother 's withering glare .
13 Christine made a grab for his gun as it spun away , but only succeeded in pushing it into a console , where its trigger caught on the comer .
14 She made a grab for his arms and held them firmly away from her , but smiling lazily , and with consummate ease , he twisted his arms so that , this time , he had her own imprisoned in his grasp .
15 At the same moment Allen saw him and made a dash for his bow .
16 Fleury made a dash for his sabre , but the sepoy was much nearer to it and picked it up , making as if to hand it to Fleury , and chuckling more loudly than ever .
17 His childhood is obscure , but in 1589 Evesham made a sundial for his brother John ( Hereford Museum ) .
18 He had landed a contract as pleased as Punch , and I made a feast for his friends .
19 The Secretary of State , having taken into account that Sheriff Thomson had been previously warned , at the time of a similar offence in 1974 , made an Order for his dismissal .
20 Jesus told the leper to go and show himself to the priest and make an offering for his healing .
21 The Regulations are intended to protect ordinary consumers and therefore do not apply where the customer is a company or corporate body or where the customer is making the contract for his business purposes .
22 The man next door has spent the last year making a kennel for his dog .
23 Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north .
24 Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north .
25 ‘ They 'll know soon enough , ’ Benedict said grimly , making no apology for his lapse .
26 Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was a paramount provision which limited all other provisions of that Act and related back to the time of the events in respect of which evidence was sought rather than forward to the time when such evidence would be given ; that since all the evidence sought from the retired Crown servant related to matters which had come to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown , section 9(4) applied and the court had no jurisdiction to make the order for his examination ( post , p. 197F–G , H ) .
27 He intended to make a dash for his room and wedge a broken chair-leg under the door to keep the monster out .
28 However , since he may not release a prisoner unless and until he is recommended to do so by the Parole Board , the stage in an individual prisoner 's sentence at which the board considers whether to make a recommendation for his release is therefore very important .
29 The wealth created during his five years of printing money permitted him to buy and then demolish , 27 houses and three gardens to make a site for his palace .
30 Seemed to make a beeline for his place did n't they ?
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