Example sentences of "he could [adv] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme the mother and this brother were plotting entailed Sien somehow , and though he could n't make head nor tail of it he feared the worst . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she swiftly apologised , when she could see he could n't make head or tail of what she was talking about . |
| 3 | ‘ And if he could n't make love to his wife because she was paralysed from the waist down … ’ |
| 4 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He connected a wire to his computer , ran it under the carpet downstairs and soldered it on to the line so he could still make calls . |