Example sentences of "[vb past] made him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was n't as odd as you 'd made him out to be , your friend , ’ Gillian said as we left . |
| 2 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 3 | Whether because of the position she 'd made him adopt , or the bonds securing him , he was as stiff as a fence post . |
| 4 | Now she 'd made him angry again . |
| 5 | He was in a filthy mood , first because I 'd suggested he sleep on my floor instead of at Sorrel 's so we could get an early start , then because I 'd made him wear a suit and tie to go with our Yuppie cover ( and because I 'd insisted on the shirt as well ) . |
| 6 | Something in her face , in her eyes , in the clenched line of her jaw , had made him hurry out of the tent after her . |
| 7 | His colleague Fleming 's humiliation on horseback had made him dread the same thing for himself . |
| 8 | The world No. 5 from the United States claimed jet-lag had made him tired . |
| 9 | Both Albert Cavalcanti , the onetime head of the GPO Film Unit whose Brazilian origins had made him unacceptable as a civil servant , and Watt joined the tight group of filmmakers Balcon had gathered round him at Ealing . |
| 10 | In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . |
| 11 | Those pipes banging like that had made him nervous . |
| 12 | Eleanor 's stories had made him jealous ; his wife 's effusions angered him . |
| 13 | Only his adopted role as class comic had made him accepted , even popular , and had saved him , sometimes at least , from those who feel powerful when they humiliate others . |
| 14 | The God who had made him get off the trike and stand still at the side of the grassily banked hill . |
| 15 | And the same smile had made him put down his pen after his brief , troubled sleep . |
| 16 | The suggestion had made him go silent . |
| 17 | He returned shortly telling me to hang on , it would n't be for long ; and the shock had made him breathless too , I noticed . |
| 18 | All peasants believed that Odin fled to Møn after the coming of Christianity had made him homeless . |
| 19 | This refusal to fit in with the system continued when he returned to London , having jumped ship after a series of incidents — chopping down the house of someone 's aunt ; being technical supervisor on a failed bank robbery — had made him somewhat too conspicuous to the New Zealand authorities . |
| 20 | They had made him both look and feel foolish , and that was infuriating . |
| 21 | They had made him into a gunman . |
| 22 | She had made him stupid , and mocked him , and his old assumptions about her docility had blinded him . |
| 23 | But he was starting to lose track of the things that had made him what he was as well . |
| 24 | He had not written much since The Complete History of Wimbledon and that book 's rejection by ten publishers ( he had still not heard from The Applecote Press , Chewton Mendip ) had made him a little nervous of putting pen to paper , but he found that if he emptied his mind of everything and forced his hand to fist a biro and then forced that biro across a sheet of paper , some pretty profound and interesting thoughts resulted . |
| 25 | His conversion to Islam , his rejection of that faith and the subsequent , troubled period , when the disease had made him all but unrecognizable to any but a few close friends , are things we may wish to pass over today , but — ’ |
| 26 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 27 | On his arrival , he had asked for hot water to be brought up to his room at nine sharp the next morning , but the sight of one of the young servant girls struggling up the stairs from the kitchen with the huge kettle of boiling water had made him feel so guilty and ashamed he had not asked again . |
| 28 | Who 's trying to swindle you this time ? ’ he asked smiling wryly — his job had made him cynical . |
| 29 | Nicholson had never carried out his threat to sue , though Hugo had endured some worrying weeks waiting to see if papers would be served on him , and the experience had made him determined never to work for the likes of Nicholson again . |
| 30 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |