Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty was , Maddy made him nervous , and the more anxious he became , the stickier became his palms . |
| 2 | Their casual acceptance of his presence made him edgy . |
| 3 | Will his ideology make him close the border , or will economic self-interest keep it open , at least for a time ? |
| 4 | His advanced views made him unpopular with many of the clergy . |
| 5 | , I mean a woman that frightened we all be seething inside and of course seeing him asleep in a drunken stupor to think now 's my chance , she must of been in a terrible state emotionally |
| 6 | In 1954 Sir Winston Churchill appointed him financial secretary to the Treasury under his old Marlborough friend , R. A. Butler ( later Baron Butler of Saffron Walden , q.v . ) . |
| 7 | Guilty because the authorities declare him guilty , a man must still be able to furnish pretexts for that guilt … |
| 8 | Pigs ' trotters made him sick . |
| 9 | The board found him guilty of ‘ verbally abusing ’ tournament director Ann Yates and ‘ intimidating ’ referee John Street . |
| 10 | In 1895 he was promoted back to the second class , but two years later , at the age of forty-five , a medical board found him unfit for duty ‘ due to chronic rheumatism and cracked feet ’ . |
| 11 | The blow caught him off-balance and he teetered for what seemed an age to the watchers , before falling into the rushing water with a hoarse scream . |
| 12 | Tod found him reliable . |
| 13 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 14 | Opponents would have difficulty keeping him quiet . |
| 15 | The jury took four hours yesterday after a nine-day trial to find him guilty of five charges of indecent assault . |
| 16 | He was , however , happy in the ranks , where his sociable and unassuming character and ability to mix with all sorts made him free of its easy comradeship . |
| 17 | Accumulated emotion made him weak , needing her . |
| 18 | He studied medicine for two years but the sight of blood made him sick so , always a lover of shopping , he defected to the world of retail . |
| 19 | The bloom in Tammuz' eyes made him apprehensive . |
| 20 | The smell of fresh bread from a bakery made him hungry but he did not stop . |
| 21 | The teasing in the dormitory made him sick with anger . |
| 22 | Still , he would have done if it had n't slipped his mind , and surely the intention made him culpable . |
| 23 | The sinister side included Norman Whiteside , still short of full fitness and substituted after his irritability got him booked , and the right-footed Neil McDonald , an obviously uncomfortable deputy at left-back for Neil ‘ Disser ’ Pointon . |
| 24 | Bruce Edgar adjudged him unlucky , but his record was modest : 17 wickets at 52.11 and 248 runs at 15.50 . |
| 25 | So he did , and sick indeed he was , for Brother Richard found him grey and shaking on his bed , when he failed to attend at Compline . |
| 26 | He pursed his big mouth into such a babyish pout that Meredith found him comical ; he sniggered . |
| 27 | ‘ No , if Michael was set up then it 's obvious the killer wants him alive . ’ |
| 28 | When Turner founded the Atlanta- based 24-hour news service the pundits pronounced him mad , but a decade later Turner owns a world-wide network and is watched by millions . |
| 29 | If B is threatened with a tort it is , of course , equally true that he may bring an action for damages if the tort is committed or bring an action for a quia timet injunction first , but , especially where the threat is of violence , it is perhaps less realistic to say that these legal remedies afford him adequate protection against the consequences of resistance . |
| 30 | Among the overseas sporting awards is an OBE for Ewen Chatfield , the veteran New Zealand bowler , who was saved by the prompt action of Bernard Thomas , the MCC physiotherapist , when a ball from England 's Peter Lever knocked him unconscious in his maiden Test match at Auckland in 1975 . |