Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he tried to make some sexual advances . |
| 2 | ‘ Only he forgot to make sure that the gnomes kept out of range . |
| 3 | ‘ Indeed , if Aristotle was a master of the art and handed his philosophy down to us very carefully , should n't he have proven everything in the most perfect form , especially when he insisted upon it himself — unless perhaps he intended to make fun of us ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He wanted to marry me — he told me I was all he needed to make his life perfect . |
| 5 | He knew that the office staff might open it and read it so he had to make it impersonal . |
| 6 | So he had to make his own product . ’ |
| 7 | Noah was in a particularly bad mood one dinner-time , and so he tried to make Oliver cry by hitting him , pulling his hair , and calling him horrible names . |
| 8 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 9 | Borrowing on the security of high hopes and honest intentions , as Malcolm Elwin observed in his edition of Haydon 's autobiography and journals ( 1950 ) , and an unsuccessful attempt to live by credit , had brought insolvency and imprisonment , and now he had to make a new start . |
| 10 | Now he plans to make a career of it . |
| 11 | Pascoe 's mind was racing so fast he had to make an effort of will to bring it under control . |
| 12 | WHEN Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United as the new boss he wanted me out of Old Trafford so badly he tried to make me redundant . |
| 13 | Eventually he had to make a choice between management and working full time in front of the cameras — so he resigned at Villa . |
| 14 | Prod him , and he will start to tell you how hard he worked to make his low-budget block-buster . |
| 15 | Fortunately he managed to make a ‘ pancake ’ landing on the water and , after two minutes in the sea , was rescued by a destroyer . |
| 16 | Then he seemed to make his mind up about something . |
| 17 | The sequence of modern physiotherapy treatment normally follows a pattern : the patient has to recover his ability to balance first and foremost ; then he has to recover his ability to transfer his weight from side to side ; standing balance is the next stage , accompanied by the ability to sit down from standing up , and to stand up from sitting ; selective movements using the affected arm and leg come next ; then he learns to make steps , followed by walking ; function in the upper limb ( arm ) and controlling it in order to make selective movements against gravity happens at a late stage ; the final rehabilitation task is to regain functional , detailed movements in the affected hand and foot . |
| 18 | Then he ceased to make notes and listened , his clean-shaven jaw sinking lower and lower until , with a small thud , the slate dropped to the floor and Thorfinn , turning , saw that he was asleep . |
| 19 | Then he started to make progress with simple objects in the room , rewarding each correct identification . |
| 20 | First he threw down his training bib , then he tried to make a point to coaches Dino Zoff and Giancarlo Oddi . |
| 21 | Then he decided to make himself an omelette . |
| 22 | The extraordinary thing about the tenor of the right hon. Gentleman 's speech in the past few minutes is that once again he seeks to make out that this is not a very important problem and that we can push it away . |
| 23 | Again he tried to make it stand with the thin box as the base and once again it fell over . |
| 24 | He had come to the conclusion that the Queen was unlikely to abdicate ( nor is there a hint that he would like her to ) , and that therefore he had to make his mark as Prince of Wales rather than as King . |