Example sentences of "[conj] make his " in BNC.

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1 The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem .
2 He wondered if they had some other sort of beam they could train on him , which would make him forget things , or make his attention wander .
3 Or make his decisions . ’
4 He therefore had the choice of making a new home somewhere or making his way back to a town about whose public feelings he could have no doubt , but knowing that if he did not change his ways the whole thing might happen again .
5 She seized Sam by the shoulder in a grip that made his eyes water .
6 Today it had doubled , crossed from one side of his forehead to the other , and reinforced a series of furrows rather than wrinkles , that made his broad white forehead look like a new-ploughed field covered in snow .
7 There was a lot of pressure on Greg for the fourth round , and that made his eventual victory even greater .
8 Both highly desirable , the one on the left especially ; both looked as if they would n't get on their backs for anything less than Edouard de Chavigny himself ; both had the kind of accent that made his toes curl , and made him wish he 'd opted for the more costly tailor .
9 But tonight there had been no time to get the cheese or sardines or cold ham that made his evening meal ; Sean never liked to cook in his bedsit above the premises of Hogan 's lest the smell of food linger and be deemed offensive .
10 Sharpe spurred her into a clumsy gallop that made his heavy sword flap in its slings and crash its disc hilt painfully onto his left thigh .
11 Covering his own face with his hands , he was overtaken by silent sobs that made his shoulders shake .
12 He could not see her face , since it was turned from him , but there was something about her that made his heart stand still .
13 These performances directed by Kuijken have many of the qualities that made his set of the Haydn ‘ Paris ’ Symphonies , also on Virgin , so winning .
14 A red hot rage that made his hands tremble .
15 Though his main stock-in-trade was probably small surveying and drawing instruments , it was his large astronomical instruments that made his reputation .
16 It was the same quality that made his fascination with money so inoffensive .
17 Blagg tried for a head shot and missed , felt a punch in the chest that made his knees fold , but he fired again and saw the pistol fall loose .
18 Luke 's eyes licked over her in a way that made his answer perfectly clear .
19 She flattered herself this was done discreetly , and was noticed by no-one , though the yearning in her look as she gazed at him would be obvious to a child of five , and the staff made frequent jokes about her loving him with a love that made his life a burden .
20 Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him .
21 Saw , too , the tiny flecks and threads of topaz and hazel that made his eyes such a compelling and disturbing feature .
22 She had a tension about her like a strung bow , and every bit as lethal , and she had a piercing beauty — why had he never marked it , he who had known her nearly three years ? that made his heart contract as he looked at her .
23 Luke strode along beside her , hands pushed easily into the pockets of the leather jacket he was wearing over jeans and a blue knit shirt that made his skin look even more tanned , his hair richly black .
24 He was watching her with that same intensity she 'd seen in his face before , the one that made his eyes seem like dark sapphires .
25 A Mattel Kriss-Kross mountain bike with stabilisers had caught his neck , when he looked up , and brought him to the ground yet it was the red and yellow tractor which applied the pressure that made his neck give way with an awful crack .
26 Mr Harvey does so with a clarity and beauty of expression that make his book worth reading even by those who will be sceptical of what he describes .
27 Former senior vice-president of marketing Dennis Peck is now consulting for the firm , mostly on large-scale Unix issues , as a result of both the merciless California property market and a highly successful wife who sells computers for another company , two reasons that make his moving to Oregon impossible .
28 Former senior vice president of marketing Dennis Peck is now consulting for the firm , mostly on large-scale Unix issues , as a result of both the merciless California real-estate market and a highly successful wife who sells computers for another company , two reasons that make his moving to Oregon impossible .
29 Eastwood 's ice-eyed killer with a moral streak ( he never guns down anyone who does n't deserve it ) is also confronted here with the horrors of a war that makes his own death-strewn path seem comfortable .
30 It is exactly this historical awareness that makes his anthology something special .
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