Example sentences of "make it his " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has made it his business to master the terminology of the economic debate , and applied to the problem an elegant and sophisticated technique of intellectual biography . |
| 2 | Sir Adrian found this work fascinating and would have been perfectly happy at the time to have made it his long-standing job . |
| 3 | Since John 's death , however , one of his younger cousins , Robin Cranko , has made it his business to search out the beginnings of the family . |
| 4 | ‘ No one has made it his own and that 's why the sleectors have chosen three of us for the training trip to Lanzarote . |
| 5 | Like a great many others in Tollemarche , he had made it his goal and his God . |
| 6 | After a dinner at the famous Kaiserhof Hotel , chosen because Hitler had made it his headquarters before he came to power , the Joyces went back to a party at the Reichsrundfunk building . |
| 7 | " The killer would have made it his business to get here early this morning , assuming that he did n't know that his plan had misfired . |
| 8 | Although it had come as a shock , for he had never made it his business to enquire into the ramifications of his family , he had found a morbid humour in the situation . |
| 9 | The girl , whose name was Marion , was now a magistrate , and a grandmother , but the escapade had sharpened the young Grunte 's appetites and he had made it his business in the intervening years to keep up what he cheerfully called ‘ my rate of strike ’ . |
| 10 | The headmaster of Cranborne School had made it his business , during Robert 's nine years in the place , to make sure that other people did the crying . |
| 11 | he 's definitely made it his own that lorry ! |
| 12 | The newly-elected councillor should make it his duty to find out how committees are elected and this information will be readily obtained from the chief executive or clerk of the authority . |
| 13 | Hence the insistence of the later books of the New Testament that anyone who aims to serve Christ faithfully must make it his aim to know and conserve God 's truth . |
| 14 | He would make it his business to find out who it was . |
| 15 | He would n't let her make it his problem . |
| 16 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food if he will make it his policy to include environmental protection features to the hill livestock compensatory allowance scheme . |
| 17 | He knew everyone , and their business , and he made it his . |
| 18 | More important , he made it his priority to ensure that the departments worked together , not against each other . |
| 19 | Charlemagne made it his capital because it was a defendable town in his own territory . |
| 20 | On my visit to New York in August of 1939 I stayed at the St Regis Hotel ( having learned it was pro-British and that the Duke of Edinburgh made it his home on Manhattan visits ) . |
| 21 | He eavesdropped on church leadership meetings in our home and then made it his business to tell everybody all that we had discussed . |
| 22 | Grand Lodge Librarian and Curator John Hamill made it his first priority to assure me that ‘ freemasonry contains neither pagan nor occult practices ’ . |
| 23 | In fact Jesus made it his business to befriend people who everyone else called failures . |
| 24 | But it certainly is n't an obvious single , although Radio 1 's Simon Mayo made it his ‘ Record Of The Week ’ which was a big help . |
| 25 | He made it his golden rule never to attack the Tories without attacking Labour , to keep equidistant between the two parties , to declare constantly that he was appalled by the thought of coalition with either , and would only undertake this under what he saw as a clear ( if only mathematical ) directive from the voters . |
| 26 | When I was at Shrewsbury School , the housemaster made it his duty to chose the cooks , maids and bottle-washers ; his criteria being age combined with an aggressive plainness . |
| 27 | In any case , he recognized the success of Dej 's gambit and made it his own after 1964.4 In fact , when Khruschev was toppled by Brezhnev in the autumn of 1964 , three counts in the lengthy criticism of his methods that was levelled at Khruschev by the new Soviet leadership referred to his errors in his dealings with the Romanians . |
| 28 | From that time , he made it his ambition to become ‘ another Jack Johnson ’ , as he told me : ‘ It was a kind of inspiration to me as I was the only black kid in the area . |
| 29 | James Ballingall , manager of the London and Kirkaldy Shipping Company and a former seaman , made it his business to advertise weaknesses of naval architecture as well as crewing and a Select Committee of 1836 found British ships to be ill constructed and badly maintained and their masters and officers frequently drunken and incompetent . |
| 30 | Ellwood made it his landmark . |