Example sentences of "he would make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christmastime , he used to go and get some wood , and he 'd make engines , great big engines and … tip-up cart with two wheels . |
| 2 | He 'd make $500,000 for every dollar the stock rises or $46m if the stock ever gets back to the $145 range . |
| 3 | Old Steenie , he 'd make money out of a kid 's conker match ; Nigel 'd close The Mousetrap within a week . ’ |
| 4 | Now go away — and if you are thinking of offering Leo violence , I should forget it ; he 'd make mincemeat of you . ’ |
| 5 | From there , like a buzzard in its eyrie , he would make forays round the US and abroad in spite of his advanced age . |
| 6 | After the rough ingots of metal had solidified , a smith would need to work the metal and hammer it out , or perhaps he would make moulds and pour the molten metal into the shaped mould . |
| 7 | They predicted that he would make friends more easily , reckoning without natural adolescent malice and the excessive value their pupils had been taught to place on modesty , however false . |
| 8 | His tutor , Dr Lindsell , declared , ‘ God keep Nick in a right mind and way , for if he should turn schismatic or heretic , he would make work for all the world . ’ |
| 9 | In time , perhaps , she would make efforts to conceal her resentment about his ability to make her feel guilty , and he would make efforts to conceal his anguish about the loss of her . |
| 10 | He would make comments about them ‘ in the same way you or I would comment on a pretty girl and a wonderful pair of knockers ’ . |
| 11 | Thomas , who also knew nothing about the affair , was highly embarrassed and could only say that he would make enquiries . |
| 12 | He would make rock star Phil Collins Minister for Arts . |
| 13 | He said he would make arrangements for Mrs Bean to be taken to hospital , but that he would prefer to talk to her son first . |
| 14 | The usual views were advanced — that he would make prison too ‘ soft ’ and too attractive ; that treating lawbreakers well would encourage more crime and that prisoners were undeserving and irredeemable , anyway . |
| 15 | His last thoughts were that he would make amends for this day ; he could baptise the maiden , they could be saved together , they could marry , he would love her , his heathen maiden , no , his heathen hoyden , he liked the rhyming of that , heathen hoyden , he would cherish her beneath the fruit-laden tree . |