Example sentences of "he make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is to prevent him making further trouble ? ’ |
| 2 | I wanted him to make that decision . |
| 3 | No woman had ever caused him to make that kind of mistake before . |
| 4 | For him to make that sort of joke on the recording was in keeping with the impression Charles was beginning to form of his character . |
| 5 | Claudia pleaded with him to make some defence . |
| 6 | Ask him to make some sort of crutch for me . |
| 7 | She was waiting for him to make some reply , and he said slowly : ‘ I guess you must be homesick , now Captain Dawson is n't here . ’ |
| 8 | In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped . |
| 9 | As he pushed away the empty plates she waited for him to make some comment about the meal . |
| 10 | Anderson attempts a show of strength by using the IFID , " I demand " five times and " I insist " once , but his insecurity is indicated by the fact that he has to support his demands by asserting that he has the status permitting him to make these speech acts . |
| 11 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 12 | It was not only duty which pushed him to make this offer , but also his old passion for her . |
| 13 | His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading . |
| 14 | He made easy copy and journalists loved his accessibility . |
| 15 | He made that noise that men who drink beer make , and wiped his mouth on the back of his wrist . |
| 16 | He made that sign of two fingers laid across two fingers . |
| 17 | Totally competent in his mind and lucid when he made that decision ? |
| 18 | He made that decision having listened to representations from hon. Members from Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | I 've gone clean off him — ever since he made that pact with Stalin and the ghastly Russians . ’ |
| 20 | trembling when he made that speech when he remember when he , remember when you , you were n't there , no you were n't there he was shaking like a leaf . |
| 21 | ‘ The Admiral was n't able to adduce anything new in evidence when he made that allegation . |
| 22 | Buy by god he made that woman come in there . |
| 23 | It can only be surmised that the Marquis was feeling pretty flush after a good win when he made that entry into his accounts , or the caddie was a highly favoured young man indeed , for four shillings at that time would have been over the top on the percentages that a caddie can expect from his round nowadays . |
| 24 | Because he made that statement when discussing the concentric spheres with which Aristotle had built the cosmos , he was evidently aware that authoritative world-pictures were not inviolable . |
| 25 | Of course after he made that statement he did n't realize that the London Region were gon na put a thousand pound in the bucket ! |
| 26 | Point of order , point of order , can Mr give any written evidence that the leader or Thamesdown Borough Council , in a meeting with him as leader of the Labour group on this council , that he made that statement ? |
| 27 | It 's gone to it 's got to a stage where he made that statement which he very very much means , he will never ever give them another album of his to market worldwide . |
| 28 | Kamara had no great love for Scottish strikers ; in April 1988 he made legal history as the first English League player to be fined in court for an on-pitch assault . |
| 29 | He made great play of all the tasks in the Casa Guidi he had been left to do — furniture to repair , decorations to see to — but to Wilson 's experienced eye they would not have occupied an energetic person more than a month at the most . |
| 30 | Upon his Roman nose , a tiny pair of gold-rimmed spectacles might have seemed insignificant — but he made great play with them . |