Example sentences of "make him [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This quote from Jean Aurenche , who co-scripted Tavernier 's first three features , identifies the driving force which informs all the director 's work , and has made him one of the leading European directors today .
2 In the intertestamental days we read of the Messiah , ‘ God will make him mighty in the Holy Spirit ’ ( Psalms of Solomon 17:37 ) , and in the Targum or Commentary on Isaiah 42 : 1 , the Servant is seen as the Messiah , and God says of him ‘ I will cause my Holy Spirit to rest on him . ’
3 His wealth made him one of the principal paymasters of the English Catholic community , and in political circles he was generally seen as the leader of Catholic opinion .
4 The answer is that his remarkable methods as batsman , bowler and captain made him one of the great sporting entertainers .
5 And made him one of the leading authorities on the fourteenth century , which was arguably the most terrible century that had ever been , at least until the present one .
6 His wife 's share in the partition of the vast Gloucester estates made him one of the leading territorial magnates and led to his being summoned to Parliament from November 1317 .
7 However , this effect may not last , and long-term follow-up is useful to ensure that the patient does not lapse into those unhealthy ways which made him unwell in the first place .
8 Vaughan 's constant sense that he was one of life 's outsiders , never a participant , that he was always ‘ trying to hold on to a reality which is no more than a projection of my own nerves ’ , made him sympathetic to the blighted , visionary anti-hero in Benjamin Britten 's opera , Peter Grimes , the première of which marked the reopening of the Sadler 's Wells Theatre after the war .
9 The drooping snout and the torpedo-like body , coupled with big fins and muscles like Charles Atlas , make him one of the best , if not the best , fighting coarse fish .
10 He was a perceptive developer of the promising research of others , having that rare combination of commercial acumen and technical expertise , making him one of the great engineers .
11 Charles has taken vows before God making him responsible for the Christian upbringing of the child .
12 Nasser 's lower-middle-class background contributed to the widening of his political interests beyond those imaginable to the fellahin , the peasantry ; while at the same time making him aware of the latter 's situation , and the political and economic oppression suffered .
13 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 .
14 As a Monk of the Abbey of Bec in France he made a study of architecture and this was to make him one of the foremost architects of his age .
15 ‘ He reached the World semi-final last year at Bradford which makes him one of the top 32 riders in the world .
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