Example sentences of "he [modal v] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He may make life unpleasant for the rest of us , but he wo n't smash the magic cup before he 's drunk from it good and deep . |
| 2 | The great warrior Arjuna has battlefield doubts whether he may make war on his own kin , and his mentor Krishna tells him victory and defeat are the same , and he must fight without desire . |
| 3 | If you are negotiating with a salesman with a view to acquiring computer software , he may make statements regarding the software and its performance . |
| 4 | Old Mr Pascall saw no reason why he should make life easy for a gossiping female and made her hold on , while he sold two ballpoint pens and a packet of rubber bands . |
| 5 | He wondered if he should make introductions . |
| 6 | Charles Harvey had spotted her drinking milky Nescafe at half-time , and had told himself that he should make inquiries as to who she was . |
| 7 | He had spent so much time with Eloise that he felt he must make love to his wife that night , however tired he felt . |
| 8 | He must make decisions about what was historically important , not about , let us say , what was theologically or aesthetically important , significant though that might be to a believer or an artist . |
| 9 | Luke Rittner believes the success of the new system will depend on a balancing act by Mr Mellor , the head of the new expanded arts ministry , the Ministry of National Heritage ( The Art Newspaper , No.18 , May 1992 , p.1 ) : he must make arts policy directly but keep his distance by taking a broadminded approach to the arts . |
| 10 | He 'll make prints for you . |
| 11 | He 'll make John sales manager north-western region . |
| 12 | He 'll make Heathcliff pay rent , and hope to win money from him at cards . |
| 13 | It was in this period that de Gaulle was anxious to proceed with devising the CAP and it seemed because of this that he might make concessions to his partners . |
| 14 | I found it incredible that he could make money doing that . |
| 15 | If only he could make contact with a genuine practising artist he 'd be able to discuss all these things and get proper advice . |
| 16 | Without doing anything at all he could make things happen for which he must be punished with slaps , missed meals or verbal assaults that left him trembling and incoherent . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , this Satanist promised he could make things fly . |
| 18 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 19 | Just letting people know that , if he chooses , he could make life very uncomfortable for them , so they 'd better lick his boots had n't they ? ’ |
| 20 | He could make life very difficult for her if he became one of the directors . |
| 21 | He could make mates and midshipmen into lieutenants , and he could advance some lucky lieutenants to the rank of commander or captain . |
| 22 | In such a state , he knew , he could make judgments which were almost too pure , too unrelenting . |
| 23 | He could n't start on his plane because there were n't any helpful books and now Mr Crangle was probably going to catch the Bookman before he could make friends with him . |
| 24 | ‘ Rohan obviously felt he could make plans for his own future , at last . |
| 25 | And she knew that this outing had been contrived by him so that he could make progress with her . |
| 26 | He learnt that he could make love and come both in haste and with impressive slowness , for five minutes or for three hours , without asking either for more or for less time from his partner but fitting in with their timing . |
| 27 | He could make love by the hour , but he went the whole way himself not more often than twice a week … |
| 28 | George Hirst would contribute in all three departments : his left-arm inswing from round the wicket would give variety to the attack , he could make runs quickly ( never mind that a large proportion would come from pull shots off the stumps ) , and was a superb mid-off fieldsman . |
| 29 | Unless he could make reality out of his dream . |
| 30 | But he did not need to do so ; and he could make men pay heavily for the privilege of the regrant , as James V certainly did . |