Example sentences of "[prep] making him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy was quite pleased by the Magistrate 's interest and was considering making him one of her favourites . |
| 2 | Looking down carries the further risk of making him unaware of other dangers around him . |
| 3 | The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place . |
| 4 | All the lovely prickles and twists stopped and she was left with nothing but a feeling of panic , able to think of nothing but how could she stop him without making him angry . |
| 5 | A hated general sales tax also contributed to making him one of Canada 's most unpopular leaders ever . |
| 6 | It was depressing to discover that the warmth of Alexei 's concern was a sham , and that it had been aimed at making him susceptible to ideas which would lead to the industrialisation of Tarvaras . |
| 7 | But then realism , as she knows , like journalism , does not exclude analysis : in fact her first book , Sartre , had ended in a mild sense of exasperation against philosophy itself , which she believed had frustrated Sartre by making him unable to write a great novel , ‘ a tragic symptom of a situation which afflicts us all ’ . |