Example sentences of "to make him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 2 | Lord Justice Waller said he was ‘ quite satisfied that the Judge had ample grounds to make him sure that the appellants had been telling lies ’ . |
| 3 | The immediate effect she had on him was to make him strong , sure , steadied on himself as never before . |
| 4 | Later , after his championship , the relation was to make him rich . |
| 5 | Much more important than this was Tolkien 's vast imaginative life , one day to make him famous as author of The Lord of the Rings , but at this date completely hidden from all but his family and close friends . |
| 6 | It would seem as though The Hobbit , for instance , the story which was to make him famous when it was published in 1937 , had existed in embryonic form as early as about 1930 . |
| 7 | If only it were possible to carry out that silly threat she 'd made — to make him sorry he 'd ever met her . |
| 8 | Her remote yet detached look seemed to make him uncomfortable . |
| 9 | He spent a lot of his time there on his knees in the chapel , praying for God to make him normal . |
| 10 | A gutfucking combination of inexpensive liquor and a couple of ampoules which were supposed to make him euphoric . |
| 11 | ‘ No more than two cups , certainly not enough to make him drunk . |
| 12 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 13 | ‘ But , then , anything Ernest does is bound to make him unhappy , ’ said Crawford . |
| 14 | Just in case Lord Milton failed to appreciate his value , MacLachlan stressed that he had been approached by the rival interest in the county and had been offered sufficient to make him easy for life , and accordingly implied that Milton had an obligation to aid him with his creditors and enable him to arrange further loans . |
| 15 | Now I 've not mentioned this not totally creditable episode in Milton 's life , I 've not mentioned it simply to make him unlikeable to you , but to go on and say that the kind of egoism which issues in this way in his life issues in a rather different way in his worth . |
| 16 | Whether or not he felt an ounce of embarrassment ( probably not ) , it had to be enough to make him aware of waiters . |
| 17 | I try … to make him aware … of his own power , his value as a human being ; to give him confidence in himself , in the richness of life in the real world and his capacity for living it . |
| 18 | She had chosen her words deliberately ; to shock him ; to make him aware of the strength of her anger . |
| 19 | ‘ If you 're rich — not like us — you shake in some rubies for his lips , some sapphires for his eyes — or topazes , if you like them yellowy — ’ Caterina shifted , resisting ‘ — some diamonds for his fingernails and so forth , all the treasures you like , to make him beautiful as the sky , as the sea , as the earth , and then you murmur the secret formula … . ’ |
| 20 | The Tutor remains a sympathetic character fur Vera , s sorrow at his departure is echoed by Kolia , Natalia 's son , when he too realises he is losing the only person who has tried to make him happy . |
| 21 | Recalling , no doubt , the sad disruptions of her own early life , she declared that ‘ our grand study has been to make him happy ’ , and added that under their Rousseau-inspired regime , in which Basil was taught nothing ‘ but what he learns from the evidence of his senses ’ , he had become ‘ certainly the most contented child I ever saw ; the least disposed to be fretful . ’ |
| 22 | Isobel soon realized that she had not made , from her point of view , the wisest of marriages , but Peter was very kind to her and she did her best to make him happy . |
| 23 | Eventually , though , I could no longer manage him at home — he was so weak ; so I arranged for him to go into the residential home , where Miss Prescott and Mrs Whitaker did everything they possibly could to make him happy and comfortable — and succeeded . |
| 24 | I love him so desperately yet I ca n't seem to make him happy . |
| 25 | She invented a hundred little things to make him happy , to bring a smile to his face . |
| 26 | I felt I had to make him happy after all the sad things which had happened to him , so I told him his English was very good . |
| 27 | Perhaps we could minute Mr 's point , just to make him happy . |
| 28 | Give whatever was needed to make him happy . |
| 29 | The woman is never sure what it takes to make him happy . ’ |
| 30 | It 's your job to make him interested . |