Example sentences of "[vb past] him [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
| 2 | It made him long for the open fields of the island , again . |
| 3 | She took him into the living-room and made him sit in the black leather armchair . |
| 4 | The lepers made him think about the two who lurked in the cemetery of St Erconwald . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction . |
| 6 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 7 | As for Forrester , Whelan , Bowman etc I got the impression that it was more desparation that made him turn to the younger players , granted their performances were top notch but I think the injury situation had more to do with it than Wilko 's judgement , after all where are they now ? ? ? |
| 8 | She had thought he was asleep , realising that he was n't only when she felt him tense under the light touch of her fingers , but as he neither moved away nor said a word , she let them remain there , resting lightly against him , the contact lax and undemanding . |