Example sentences of "[modal v] make him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him considerable work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or contractor with the company in administration , but all of these will be among the factors relevant to be taken into consideration ( post , pp. 862H — 863A , 864C ) . |
| 2 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him a lot of work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or a contractor with the company in administration , but all these will be relevant factors , together no doubt with many others . |
| 3 | ‘ So he is therefore claiming that , as I have no further work for him , then I must make him redundant . ’ |
| 4 | — Well , she 'll make him sorry . |
| 5 | I do n't want to be on the phone when he arrives — it 'll make him wary . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You want to learn somethin' wot 'll make him happy ? ’ |
| 7 | It 'll make him happy , and things will go easier if you do . ’ |
| 8 | His chronic bronchitis was also noted as this might make him unfit for anaesthetic or at risk of a post-operative chest infection as well as exacerbating his present problems . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the general practitioner 's knowledge of the person 's background and current circumstances could make him invaluable both in furthering the understanding of the attempt and in the provision of appropriate help . |
| 10 | Pressing his hand against her bosom or kissing his fingers softly and reverently , she told him that she knew and had always known that only she could make him happy , that there was already a mystical bond between them and that if she could not soon feel his arms about her and his lips upon her own , she would sink away into despair . |
| 11 | For centuries , no one had come along who could make him afraid . |
| 12 | A spell out of the side could make him restless . |
| 13 | Eventually , though , I could no longer manage him at home — he was so weak ; so I arranged for him to go into the residential home , where Miss Prescott and Mrs Whitaker did everything they possibly could to make him happy and comfortable — and succeeded . |
| 14 | I read to him , and talked to him , and did everything I could to make him comfortable . |
| 15 | STUDENT John McCoy went for a spin in his car hoping it would make him tired — and plummeted 30ft down a cliff . |
| 16 | I mean , what would make him vulnerable ? |
| 17 | Tom Watson from the US was bidding for the joint record-sixth British Open victory that would make him immortal alongside Harry Vardon . |
| 18 | Ignorance , combined with confidence that the popular support that he enjoyed inside France would make him indispensable to the Allies , may well explain his initially calm response to news of the invasion on 8 November . |
| 19 | Section 2(5) of the 1959 Act reads : " A person shall not be convicted of an offence against this section ( ie the offence of publishing obscene material ) if he proves that he had not examined the article in respect of which he is charged and had no reasonable cause to suspect that it was such that his publication of it would make him liable to be convicted of an offence against this section . " |
| 20 | Her proposition had been simple and direct — if he were to work for her , she would make him wealthy and ensure him a place in society . |
| 21 | He had thought that living in Normandy would make him ambivalent towards his old enemy , but he had spent too many years fighting the Crapauds suddenly to relinquish the need to see them beaten . |
| 22 | A win for Kevin in his Skoda at Swansea tomorrow would make him favourite to become National Champion . |
| 23 | Alice 's voice held genuine regret , for although she had never thought Madeleine the right girl for Harry , she would have done anything possible to forward a marriage between them if she truly believed it would make him happy . |
| 24 | This is the pencil that his kindergarten teacher possessed ; the pencil that made the blue ticks and the red crosses in the register ; the pencil that he wept for , that his mother went all over town to find , and failed to find , because they were all gone , or not made any more , or kept for teachers , or only imagined ; the pencil which he knew would make him happy , if only he possessed it , for evermore . |
| 25 | To get things moving , wealthy collector Walter Donovan ( Julian Glover ) — who believes drinking from the cup will make him immortal — kidnaps Indie 's father and lures the son to Venice where the search for a vital clue necessitates a flesh-crawling wade through flooded , rat-infested catacombs . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | I see the whole chapter as a subtle but misconceived footnote to Crime and Punishment ; in these pages , instead of brushing past Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in his return upon the underground man , Dostoevsky has allowed himself to be obstructed by them , and the result is a Stavrogin who compounds Raskolnikov 's bracing himself to enter the police station ‘ as a man ’ and confess with Svidrigailov 's reaching out in all directions , including the far extremes of moral and physical debauchery , in the hope that something , it does n't matter what , will make him unbored . |
| 28 | The spirit of the wind will bring him good luck and the spirit of the rain will make him happy . ’ |
| 29 | Only a judge and a jury can make him guilty . |
| 30 | These people here can make him useful to society . ’ |