Example sentences of "he [adv] made a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He obviously made a habit of this . |
| 2 | He just made a crack about Maurice needing to sleep quiet in his bed . |
| 3 | ‘ In that case I think he just made a pass at your wife . ’ |
| 4 | He quickly made a name for himself when he reversed the works lorry into a workshop wall and was banned from driving the Company vehicles until after he could drive properly . |
| 5 | In one memorable outburst , he once made a plea for more money , claiming that professional footballers were little more than ‘ white slaves ’ . |
| 6 | He also made a pot of tea . |
| 7 | He scraped through the Eton of Dr Edmond Warre [ q.v. ] , under the particular care of Arthur Benson [ q.v. ] , his housemaster , without distinction , but in 1902 gained a first class in modern history at Balliol College , Oxford , where he also made a reputation for himself as a roof-climber , despite his blindness . |
| 8 | He also made a comment on one of his early poems that it belonged to his ‘ Imagist period ’ , adding almost sotto voce and in a typical Eliot way — ‘ if there was an Imagist period ’ . |
| 9 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 10 | He even made a number of slips and repetitions that on a different evening he would have been quick to reprimand in others . |
| 11 | They attacked the driver and he straightway made a bolt for it , leaving the horses standing there . |
| 12 | He had his own rooms in a separate part of the quinta , where he entertained his friends until late at night ; at meals he sometimes made a show of conversation with her , but otherwise they were as strangers . |
| 13 | Of course he never made a name for himself , like Gifford Tate , though Tate himself reckoned uncle was the better painter . |