Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Will 'e get better ? " |
| 2 | After his twenty-fifth year , the stories about him became worse . |
| 3 | As my own position with him became firmer , he aired occasional criticisms of Mrs Williams . |
| 4 | This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But day by day I watched him becoming weaker , although he never complained . |
| 7 | This made it easy for him to appear younger , simpler and less thinking than he was . |
| 8 | Len possessed that amazing ability that is sometimes found in footballers , to ‘ hang ’ in the air for a fraction of a second , so enabling him to obtain greater power and better direction from the ensuing header . |
| 9 | I have never seen him looking better . |
| 10 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 11 | They were in chronological order and I saw him grow older before my eyes . |
| 12 | Let him grow stronger before you break the news . |
| 13 | Now he realises a sugar lump will make him feel better so he does n't mind . |
| 14 | Nigel assumed she was lying , but it made him feel better . |
| 15 | It made him feel better when he heard Smallfry mention the book , the special album in which they kept all the photographs of him wearing his best clothes and doing nice things . |
| 16 | Alexia was trying to make him feel better . |
| 17 | The unkind things your husband says to you not only make you feel bad but also make him feel better . |
| 18 | make him feel better , and I was the only one of all his children |
| 19 | In fact he was waiting for the place , its calm and its unconcern , to make him feel better . |
| 20 | When she had said that before she had meant it , but now she realised she was lying ; she was wanting to make him feel better and she was also hanging on to her old life to feel safe . |
| 21 | Make him feel better . |
| 22 | Make him feel better , comfort him , exactly . |
| 23 | At first he found the increase of activity made him feel healthier , but soon the exhaustion of travelling — and the waste of time involved — began to affect him . |
| 24 | The Nobel had afforded only a temporary alleviation of this condition : indeed , the abbreviated stay in Princeton , the rush back to England , and the trip to Stockholm made him feel worse rather than better . |
| 25 | Be careful , therefore , that you do n't merely make him feel worse about his spelling . |
| 26 | It makes him feel worse . |
| 27 | he , he goes , he reckoned that , he reckoned that , that my blanket made him feel worse . |
| 28 | He gulped a little , but the notion of locking the door certainly seemed to make him feel happier . |
| 29 | She omitted to mention that , when they last made representations to the bookseller , Mr Pascall , he had said that he stocked the books he could sell ; and if the ladies wanted him to sell better books they should take to buying them and reading them , instead of watching television all day . |
| 30 | OK , in the end the board would have told him to sod off , but it would have made him look better . |