Example sentences of "to make he [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Who twisted his arm to make him admit that ? ’ she demanded incredulously . |
| 2 | Anything to make him bite ! |
| 3 | Clever western diplomacy could try to make him appear less heroic , by keeping the linkage vague , but then — unless he has belatedly realised the hopelessness of his position — he would see no benefit in it . |
| 4 | That bit about throwing the stone up the alley to make him rush off after it , I got that from a detective story . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's done more , seen more , to make him want to toss it all in than almost anybody his age . |
| 6 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 7 | The clothes had been left on the heated towel rack in the bathroom , which had taken some of the chill off them , but insinuating himself into their dampness was almost enough to make him retract his jibe , and wear the absent lover 's clothes . |
| 8 | She hissed at Ariel to make him leave , and Ariel would wave him to keep his distance ; Jack did not mind . |
| 9 | THE wife of golf star Fred Couples claims he has frozen her out of their marriage — and she intends to make him pay for it . |
| 10 | Suddenly , I want to punish him , to make him pay for my invisibility . |
| 11 | She had sarcastically asked him if he 'd tracked Ryan down in order to make him pay it back , and he 'd said yes . |
| 12 | She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid . |
| 13 | In such a case the only way to make sense of the rule that the buyer must bear the loss is still to make him pay whilst allowing him to take whatever remains of the goods . |
| 14 | However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection . |
| 15 | And then they turned to her and reminded her again how she was to handle him , no trying to make him do as she wanted , only to do as he wanted . |
| 16 | And Miss P told him that if ever any man tried to mess him about or to make him do things he did n't want to do then he should come right back to The Bar and tell us , and we 'd sort the man out for him . |
| 17 | He was thinking — and something had happened that day to make him do so — about the first time he had seen the female golden eagle in the Zoo . |
| 18 | ‘ To make him do as I say , not as he thinks he should do . ’ |
| 19 | But I think he 'll be so shocked that I shall be able to make him do what I want . |
| 20 | If the Tellenoreans had got into Pike 's body , was n't this a slightly odd thing to make him do ? |
| 21 | But her plan to make him sing the Neil Diamond song Nobody Brings Me Flowers live on air fell through . |
| 22 | ‘ Her attitude towards him is sufficient to make him smell disruption . ’ |
| 23 | To Warnie , he had written a letter fall of the gravest admonitions , designed to make him think carefully about what he was committing himself to . |
| 24 | She professed love for Gentle at intervals , but not with sufficient consistency to make him think he could prise her from her husband , even if he wanted to , which he was by no means certain he did . |
| 25 | We want to make him think , experience , translate , for himself . |
| 26 | She put a hand on his shoulder , to slow him , to make him think , and he tightened his grip on her haunches , dragging her into the quickening thump of his hips . |
| 27 | All the activity around his earth , and the fact that there were a mere three hounds , had combined to make him think the open country might be safer today ; now they 'd given him proof that it was n't . |
| 28 | What had Lavinia , Lady Merchiston done to make him speak so ? |
| 29 | ‘ I look a bit of a hag , ’ I said , trying to make him laugh . |
| 30 | She put on an adopted cosy accent to make him laugh , but she was no mimic and the effort was arthritic . |