Example sentences of "[noun pl] to make his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pacepa says that Ceauşescu was afraid of poisoning after the CIA 's attempt to murder Fidel Castro by impregnating his clothes with potions to make his beard fall out , and so he ordered the Securitate department which provided all his personal needs free of charge to arrange for the manufacture of a new set of clothes for every day of his life . |
| 2 | And after being surprisingly left out of the South African party that reached the World Cup semi-finals last March , Cook has much to prove and not too many years left in his legs to make his mark on the international game . |
| 3 | He did n't keep me waiting , however ; he was not the sort of man who needed gimmicks to make his effects . |
| 4 | Apart from anything else , the demerger plan evidently reflected the desire of Sir Denys — who would chair both companies to make his mark on history . |
| 5 | Nicol , since the disastrous encounter near Ullesthorpe , had had five days to make his way lamely across country to reach Sub-Prior Herluin and make his report . |
| 6 | It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time . |
| 7 | Charles must use these years to make his mark and dabble in things that he may have to surrender when he succeeds to the throne . |
| 8 | He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do . |
| 9 | The US Strategic Air Command had the bombers and nuclear weapons to make his ‘ retaliation ’ policy credible . |
| 10 | We are thus faced in his later years by the paradox of a ruler who had spent his life in efforts to make his subjects prosperous and happy compelled to create a system of secret police and to hold down considerable parts of his territories by armed force . |
| 11 | He produced sheaves of paper ; he rounded-off figures to make his calculations simpler ; he kept them all in francs , because Jean-Paul became hopelessly muddled by rates of exchange . |
| 12 | The first programmes were mostly about British natural history , but soon the supply of other people 's film began to run out and Peter started to go abroad with BBC teams to make his own . |
| 13 | The pastor moved his arms like windmill sails to make his point . |
| 14 | He slipped into his coat and shook his arms to make his shirt cuffs appear . |
| 15 | He said Oliver was extremely embarrassed , as well he might have been , because he was buying flowers to make his peace with a girl he 'd gone to bed with the night before and been impotent with . |
| 16 | His presentation methods were good too , using a mixture of direct lecturing , video , and taped examples to make his points . |
| 17 | And when the senses of sight and sound are combined , it is usually necessary for the sound engineer to go through all sorts of contortions to make his recordings without upsetting the picture-recording process . |
| 18 | Sherborne , twice a winner in Spain , compiled a best-of-the-day 66 with six birdies and no bogies to make his charge towards the leaders . |
| 19 | Jones had been cast for the minor but useful role of leading a small diversionary force of ships to the north of England and Scotland , but his attempts to make his ships ready for sea involved him in constant arguments with the French authorities , and his reputation as a tyrannical captain made it hard to find a crew . |
| 20 | 1.28 A badly disabled plaintiff might need specially constructed or modified accommodation and a whole range of appliances to make his life more tolerable ( see George v Pinnock [ 1973 ] 1 WLR 118 , Cunningham v Harrison [ 1973 ] QB 942 and Abdul-Hosn v The Trustees of The Italian Hospital ( 1987 ) unreported ) . |
| 21 | He used no symbols , but tried to set out something like reaction mechanisms to make his subject more readily intelligible ( p. 221 ) : |