Example sentences of "make [pron] name [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the outstanding men who first made their name in the amateur game , turned professional — Tilden , Perry , Budge , Gonzales ‘ Sedgman , Trabert , and then Rosewall , Hoad , and finally Rod Laver . |
| 2 | The company , which made its name with the Microdata Reality version of Pick , running on machines built in-house , has been moving over to software and services , which now account for 58% of total business , and on the hardware side , the company now buys in its machines . |
| 3 | Crossman joined Ambrose 's Embassy Club Orchestra in 1926 , some years before the band made its name as the finest jazz group in Europe . |
| 4 | The bid , made in partnership with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( KKR ) , the group that made its name in the leveraged buy-out binge of the 1980s , enhances the deal-making reputation of Fleet/Norstar 's chairman , Terrence Murray . |
| 5 | Easy Rider made its name in the middle of this melée and specifically at a time when the whole counter-culture movement had taken on an explosive , manic air . |
| 6 | Having made their name as the most mischievous men in pop , their audience watched uneasily as Madness turned down the corners of their mouths . |
| 7 | The civil servant on Plowden 's team in charge of the power station construction programme was F. W. ( ‘ Bomber ’ ) Smith , who had made his name in the War by successfully stepping up aircraft production in Beaverbrook 's celebrated Ministry . |
| 8 | It is worth describing it at such length so that readers who have not read Tolkien 's ‘ minor ’ works might develop some idea of Lewis 's importance as Tolkien 's ‘ onlie begetter ’ or ‘ miglior fabbro ’ , for there can be very little doubt that it was Lewis 's friendship and encouragement which led Tolkien to write the works which made his name with the public ; just as it was Tolkien 's friendship which released in Lewis wells of creativity which had remained ( though he was so naturally fluent ) mysteriously dry . |
| 9 | The screenplay was written by Herb Gardner , a cartoonist who made his name with The Nebbishes and the 1962 hit Broadway play , A Thousand Clowns , filmed in 1965 . |
| 10 | This background is shared by other prominent politicians , notably the prime minister , Nikolai Ryzhkov , who also comes from Sverdlovsk and also made his name in the industrial bureaucracy . |
| 11 | He made his name in the 1950s as a prize-winning and rather racy novelist . |
| 12 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman made his name in the 1960s as a maverick historian who charged that only 30,000 people perished at the hands of the Ustashe fascists . |
| 13 | It co-stars Hugh Grant , 31 , who made his name in the film of E M Forster 's Maurice . |
| 14 | Lenny made his name in the unlicensed ring . |
| 15 | His earliest stage roles at Barnes and the Everyman in Hampstead in 1926 were in classic Russian plays but in 1928 , at the Little Theatre in London , he first made his name in the type of role which was to become his hallmark : that of the neurotic , greedy , sinister villain in A Man with Red Hair by Hugh Walpole [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | Mr Bresslaw made his name in the TV comedy , The Army Game . |
| 17 | Just now Christien 's thoughts are more preoccupied with making his name in The Blackheath Poisonings . |
| 18 | For any news agency to survive and to make its name among the mass media , which constitute its major clients , it must adhere to the highest ideals of journalistic accuracy and objectivity . |
| 19 | For any news agency to survive and to make its name among the mass media , which constitute its major clients , it must adhere to the highest ideals of journalistic accuracy and objectivity . |