Example sentences of "[noun] to make him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he needed , he sometimes thought , was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant . |
| 2 | O'Brien suspects northern influence was brought to bear on Dick Spring to make him change his tune . |
| 3 | And , anyway , it was from the British he made his money , selling them scrap iron during the war , so it will be an extra pleasure to make him cough up that sort of loot . ’ |
| 4 | It takes a lot of gratuitous cruelty perpetrated in the name of dogma to make him criticize the Party , as when the ‘ Attack the Evil Winds of Capitalism Team ’ tells the old peasant Guo Lao-da to kill the six ‘ capitalist ’ ducks he owns . |
| 5 | Apart from terrifying him into submission , there is no surefast remedy to make him comply with your wishes . |
| 6 | Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself . |
| 7 | He does not require an imperative to make him avoid the sickness from the thought of which he already shrinks in nausea ; what he has to force himself to do is hold on to the fact that sickness is the likely outcome of yielding to temptation . |
| 8 | However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection . |
| 9 | She stood defiantly in front of him , shaking her head , trying desperately to find the words to make him realise that she was tired , due for leave , and really felt he should ask someone else . |
| 10 | ‘ So long as your prick is n't made of wood as well as ! ’ she had said with a laugh to make him feel easy . |
| 11 | At least Ferdinando now knew a great deal of English , whatever she had said to Pen to make him feel important . |
| 12 | But her plan to make him sing the Neil Diamond song Nobody Brings Me Flowers live on air fell through . |
| 13 | What would he say when — if ! — Lady Merchiston informed him of her plan to make him marry her companion ? |
| 14 | It explained everything , though she fought it , fought the nightmare truth of her growing feelings for him , her respect , her admiration , her jealousy , her pain , her longing to make him feel something for her , anything , so long as it came from the heart and not the body … |
| 15 | Swept on the flood of her own excitement , she simply changed course , banging her fist against the side of her chair in her eagerness to make him understand . |
| 16 | And there is a good account of the infamous Nixon/Kennedy TV debate when Kennedy 's aide even turned up the heat in Nixon 's dressing-room to make him sweat more . |
| 17 | One 's the need to make him let me go . |
| 18 | One was Hank , who stood at his side , pulling his sleeve to make him stop . |
| 19 | Painted straight onto the walls , this commission took far more of the artist 's time than he had bargained for , and Lutyens had to be firm with his friend to make him finish it . |
| 20 | He was thinking — and something had happened that day to make him do so — about the first time he had seen the female golden eagle in the Zoo . |
| 21 | Only how the devil to make him believe that ? |
| 22 | That bit about throwing the stone up the alley to make him rush off after it , I got that from a detective story . |
| 23 | It took a long talk from one of the Sisters of Charity to make him realise that God had given him the gift of his voice and he was to use his gift with religion to help these people . |
| 24 | If the accused uses force on a railway signalman to make him stop a train , it is robbery if the accused steals from the train . |
| 25 | She professed love for Gentle at intervals , but not with sufficient consistency to make him think he could prise her from her husband , even if he wanted to , which he was by no means certain he did . |
| 26 | There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde . |
| 27 | If the Tellenoreans had got into Pike 's body , was n't this a slightly odd thing to make him do ? |
| 28 | Or a word in my husband 's ear to make him agree with whatever you 're wanting ? ’ |
| 29 | Ignoring the paladin 's complaints , Cleo kicked Contralto 's flanks to make him trot , and presently they came to a place where the path widened . |
| 30 | At the inquest into his death and those he killed the sergeant said he saw nothing in the dead officer to make him question his state of mind . |