Example sentences of "made him [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Because God has done this , he 's he 's made him available .
2 He was an honest merchant whose skills , and those of others , including thank God the British Nan , had made him rich enough to slake any whim to satiety .
3 His ugliness set him apart ; his ugliness had made him vain .
4 Nearly half a century of debauchery had made him immune to such mundane feelings .
5 Sien had made him strong and potent again .
6 ‘ Playing and working outside , and eating good Yorkshire food , has made him strong .
7 He wondered how he had found sufficient courage to ask her to the Edwardian Ball , and then remembered that it was her air of calm dignity which had made him anxious to take her to impress his parents .
8 The long stay in the corridors must have made him forgetful , he thought .
9 They 've made him redundant .
10 The gifts had become a pressure , an embarrassment , and her refusal to accept them had made him manipulative .
11 The thought of being there had made him fearful then .
12 In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) .
13 On these rides , sometimes of many miles , he found things with which Emmanuel Congregational church and Repton school chapel had not made him familiar .
14 The circumstances in which Anselm used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae in these nine letters from 1101 to 1106 show that he knew that this phrase embodied the papal policy with which Hugh of Lyons had probably made him familiar , and which he was in duty bound to carry out in the matter of homage and investiture .
15 Her baby 's father was quite a bit older than she , twenty-six , and wanted her to have the baby because he thought that having mumps had made him sterile .
16 She had made him stupid , and mocked him , and his old assumptions about her docility had blinded him .
17 Those pipes banging like that had made him nervous .
18 Fleischmann said that one of the referees had said that it was nonsense and that the reaction of this referee had made him nervous about the validity of their experiment .
19 For the predictions that have made him famous , Britain 's top amateur weather-watcher would rather rely on a few observations of his own …
20 Horbury was on drugs for high-blood pressure which had made him impotent and claims his wife admitted adultery , Mr Rees said .
21 He was taller than Huy , and labour had made him sinewy ; but he was older , and his guard had dropped .
22 Until now he had never had to court the approval of the political elite , because his monopoly of legitimacy had made him irreplaceable .
23 Carson had been before , but the place had always made him uneasy ; it was so Victorian in its assumptions .
24 It was n't congenital stupidity that had made him susceptible to human jurisdiction , it was anguish .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 ‘ What was it he had that made him mean so much to you in the war ? ’ asked Greg .
28 Yet when I placed the first hot pad on to the boy 's twisted left leg he seemed not to feel any pain ; I supposed the pain of the spasms had made him impervious to a lesser pain .
29 Who 's trying to swindle you this time ? ’ he asked smiling wryly — his job had made him cynical .
30 As a young man , he had been the victim of an ill-starred passion ; the experience had made him misanthropic , and now he lived alone with his parrot .
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