Example sentences of "he made a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Graeme Woodhatch , 38 , was shot four times at close range as he made a phone call at the Royal Free Hospital in London 's Hampstead in May .
2 When Miss Harding decided to end the 18 month relationship Assin wrote her letters and poems and when these failed the prosecution alleged he made a phone call and threatened to kill her .
3 Later in life he made a trilogy of films about the theatre , of which The Golden Coach is one of the most ravishing .
4 Yet he made a fortune .
5 Robert Service may not have struck it rich in finding Yukon gold , but he made a fortune from his books of verse , which sold into millions of copies .
6 He made a fortune from a variety of " rackets " , aided by the corruption of the city authorities that spread from the Mayor , " Bill Bill " Thompson , down to the policemen on the beat .
7 Wright , a player I 've admired since he made a name for himself at Crystal Palace , was strangely ignored for the European championship finals .
8 Although Ballinger knew little Welsh , he made a name as a bibliographer by publishing the monumental Catalogue of Printed Literature in the Welsh Department of Cardiff Free Library ( 1898 ) , articles on Vicar Prichard of Llandovery ( 1899 ) , and on the Trevecca printing press ( 1905 ) , and The Bible in Wales ( 1906 ) , all with the assistance of James Ifano Jones .
9 After we 'd sorted out his problems … he made a way for me to forget my pride … and come over to see you .
10 He made a telephone call in the village , then bought some toothpaste at the shop .
11 He resisted the temptation to kick the radio in after the fish then sprinted the forty yards to the cabin where he made a telephone call to acknowledge the bleeper .
12 One symptom of the pope 's embarrassment is that for the first and last time he made a concession to Anselm on the subject of the primacy of Canterbury , which we must deal with later .
13 Henry and he made a treaty of alliance , agreeing that Richard should be betrothed to one of the Count 's daughters and that , when married , they should be granted the duchy of Aquitaine .
14 He made a fist and banged on the casing , hard .
15 He made a fist and shot it in the air by her cheek .
16 They heard that in 1989 , when he was treasurer of the Oxford Polytechnic student union , he made a cheque out for five pounds to a fellow student .
17 The hair of his bush floated and he made a swell in the water with his hand to make it ride up and down like seaweed over waves .
18 Professor Plop and the Timemachine , he made a timemachine , went to Egypt and instead of having Tuten Khamoun in headdress he had Tuten Khamoun in headphones .
19 They challenged him and he made a run for it .
20 Through her tears she saw Garry scaling the wall as he made a run for it .
21 She watched as he made a run for the barn , her holdall , cumbersome and heavy , in one hand , across the stepping-stones , the mud , the quagmire that would , if Robyn had her way , soon become a large paved terrace .
22 City 's miserable week was confirmed when with eighty two minutes gone , Steve Brown brought down Cowell in the area as he made a run for the by-line .
23 Whatever the truth behind that story , in July 1990 Rob Lowe showed the world that he had the same kind of concerns and cares as everyone else when he made a surprise and last-minute appearance at the Knebworth Charity Festival where Elton John and Phil Collins were among the artists performing .
24 Gareth 's appearance surprised everyone , especially Tremayne : he made a bravado entrance to cover shyness in a dinner jacket no one knew he had , and he looked neat , personable and much older than fifteen .
25 He made a goal ( 65 ) for Baltazar , but Howard Kendall 's side equalised ( 70 ) .
26 Then he made a question mark away to the right on the same line .
27 He made a question of it , and Buffy laughed .
28 He made a mess of things in the park , but it 's the first time he 's got it wrong .
29 Oh they 're okay erm just one thing , erm I went to the dentist up over there in Street , and he made a mess of filling two teeth .
30 Anyway , he was no good with needles , and he made a mess of his veins .
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