Example sentences of "a [noun] he [verb] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening when Zbo and Modi were sitting together in a café , Modigliani finished a sketch he had made and then tore the page out of his blue sketchbook . |
| 2 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 3 | Further , he appealed for action in a field he wished to make his own , the " war on poverty " . |
| 4 | Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher . |
| 5 | A jet lad , Robert Middleton , was fined 2s 6d ( 12p ) for assaulting a woman neighbour , merely for sitting on a seat he had made . |
| 6 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court was told that Mantack took with him a tape he had made of a woman 's voice crying for help . |
| 7 | Their underlying feeling is that Frank Williams has blundered badly and they are saying : ‘ What a mess he has made of it all ! ’ |
| 8 | This time last week it had been , last Saturday , when she and Miguel had spent some time together and she was as happy as she had ever been in her life — until that moment when she discovered just how much of a fool he had made of her … |
| 9 | It was a pact he had made within himself , and with those powers , if they existed , known as Callanish . |
| 10 | I sought clarification on a point he had made at the press conference . |
| 11 | It would have thrown light on Eliot 's attitude to the liturgy and to the drama , which in his view were indissolubly linked , though he realized the temptation to enjoy the emotions of the Mass for their own sake ; a point he had made in his ‘ Dialogue on Poetic Drama ’ . |
| 12 | He pointed out my Marvin as being a prototype he had made in 1964 , and said how the beech neck on my model was later fitted with a trim , and how the position of the 3-way selector switch was altered from vertical to horizontal following a request from Hank himself , knowledge that had hitherto been unknown to me . |
| 13 | Bernard immediately renewed a contact he had made with the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation ltd ( ICFC ) to secure a loan , the company 's first major borrowing . |
| 14 | But still Jack listened , and after a while he began to make out the quick flow of words . |
| 15 | He persuaded a friend he had made through the gallery , Sheridan Dufferin , then an undergraduate at Christchurch , to go a good deal higher , and it worked . |
| 16 | Oliver scowled at him and went behind the plant , muttering a spell he had made up that morning . |
| 17 | In drawing a miner he has made a self-portrait . |
| 18 | He also described a call he had made later to his friend Hartmut Mayer of the BKA asking him if he knew how the bomb had been put aboard Flight 103 . |
| 19 | A husband was jailed for attacking a man he found making love to his estranged wife . |
| 20 | ‘ Once , he gave me a jack-in-a-box he had made . |
| 21 | His initial reluctance stemmed partly from a statement he had made in November 1991 vowing never to accept the post . |
| 22 | She remembered him laughing kindly as he said this , because he liked Joe , he liked Joe very much ; but at the same time he felt guilty about him , because in a way he had made use of him as a sort of cover . |
| 23 | Ken told him about a trip he had made to Spain with a friend whom he called ‘ Milicent ’ . |
| 24 | Sheldon himself never lied to his friends about the mummy and we have to be grateful to Faujas Saint-Fond for the following account written shortly after a visit he had made on Sheldon : ‘ It is [ said Sheldon ] a mistress whom I tenderly loved . |
| 25 | He told me of a visit he 'd made to California . |
| 26 | Although the disagreements had been resolved in early March , continuing dissatisfaction in some quarters of the FKgP had been highlighted by the passage on March 18 of a vote of no confidence in FKgP parliamentary group leader Jozsef Torgyan , because of a speech he had made at a rally on March 9 attacking the voucher scheme . |
| 27 | Next morning , after a 9.15 breakfast , he discussed with Jones his ideas for a speech he had to make in a few weeks ' time at a Literary Fund dinner . |
| 28 | Anyway , we arrived back here just before five and he asked me to keep an appointment he had made with Harry Collins at The Bay View . |
| 29 | These hostilities and complaints from readers were occupying the Editor 's attentions as much as his war memoirs : one correspondent , for instance , was angry about an attack he had made on James Joyce , while another accused him of letting Christopher Stone ‘ drag the paper down into the subhuman world of jazz ’ . |