Example sentences of "he [adv] make a [noun sg] " 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 | When he heard about Marie 's accident he just made a joke . |
| 4 | ‘ In that case I think he just made a pass at your wife . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He just makes a mockery of those who write players off at 32 or say the Premier League is for young athletes . |
| 6 | And should he ever make a sequel , he 's been warned — someone will be watching very closely . |
| 7 | Rincewind relaxed slightly , which was to say that he still made a violin string look like a bowl of jelly . |
| 8 | Now you did n't have to copy everything , but Uncle Jonathan was very meticulous and anything that there would be any debate on , or any discussion on , he always made a copy and it was my job to do this without smearing it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In one memorable outburst , he once made a plea for more money , claiming that professional footballers were little more than ‘ white slaves ’ . |
| 11 | He also made a pot of tea . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | He also makes a distinction between the profit-making nature of a private organization such as a firm and the non-profit-making activity of public sector organizations like bureaucracies . |
| 15 | Antoine evidently waved it , but he also makes a distinction between ‘ giving the tempos ’ and ‘ beating time ’ . |
| 16 | And anyway , did he really make a habit of such manual labour ? |
| 17 | He simply made a decision and then stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 18 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 19 | He even made a number of slips and repetitions that on a different evening he would have been quick to reprimand in others . |
| 20 | However , he even makes a way to deal with wrong behaviour . |
| 21 | They attacked the driver and he straightway made a bolt for it , leaving the horses standing there . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
| 24 | Then he actually made a paper aeroplane so that she had an example in front of her that she can look at to see what she is aiming for . |
| 25 | He too made a vow . |
| 26 | ‘ He used his money to help others — but he never made a song and dance about it . ’ |
| 27 | Of course he never made a name for himself , like Gifford Tate , though Tate himself reckoned uncle was the better painter . |
| 28 | Who was described thus : ‘ About 5ft 8in or 9in , blonde with a light , thin moustache , walks with a slight stoop , can not speak any Dutch , during long conversations he occasionally makes a rattling noise in his throat ’ ? |