Example sentences of "[verb] make him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that the possibility of a revolution occurring in a country where capitalism was poorly developed made him aware of the problem of setting up too rigid a sequence for human evolution . |
| 2 | Being bullied make him angry . |
| 3 | ‘ Playing and working outside , and eating good Yorkshire food , has made him strong . |
| 4 | He was so convinced that she was , he just assumed she had stayed with some girlfriend to try to make him jealous . |
| 5 | They helped to make him unmistakable , which he liked . |
| 6 | Now she 'd made him angry again . |
| 7 | Her remote yet detached look seemed to make him uncomfortable . |
| 8 | ‘ The goal Eric scored makes him attractive to me , ’ said the Leeds manager . |
| 9 | Her baby 's father was quite a bit older than she , twenty-six , and wanted her to have the baby because he thought that having mumps had made him sterile . |
| 10 | So I had to go along with it , to avoid making him suspicious ’ . |
| 11 | Give whatever was needed to make him happy . |
| 12 | He struggled on alone , as against a blank wall of darkness and silence that blocked his light , stifled his breath , and threatened to make him mad . |
| 13 | The woman is never sure what it takes to make him happy . ’ |
| 14 | The long stay in the corridors must have made him forgetful , he thought . |
| 15 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 16 | Is this a struggle inside Frodo 's soul , between his conscious will and his unconscious wickedness ( the sort of wickedness which might earlier have made him reluctant to hand over the Ring to Gandalf ) ? |
| 17 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 18 | Kinnock 's early socialism may have made him unable to appeal beyond Labour 's natural constituency , but it is why people within that constituency have trusted him . |
| 19 | It would have made him unable to race . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But , then , anything Ernest does is bound to make him unhappy , ’ said Crawford . |
| 21 | The harder he worked at it , the less success he seemed to be having ; his pain and frustration were combining to make him angry , and he flung the bottle down onto the bed . |
| 22 | In the genre terms , that ought to have made him unassailable . |
| 23 | He ought to have been over the moon at her suggestion that she leave him , but instead it seemed to have made him angry . |
| 24 | But she claimed she liked being with him , she liked making him happy , and she liked doing what he did . |
| 25 | I love him so desperately yet I ca n't seem to make him happy . |
| 26 | The Tutor remains a sympathetic character fur Vera , s sorrow at his departure is echoed by Kolia , Natalia 's son , when he too realises he is losing the only person who has tried to make him happy . |
| 27 | It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it . |
| 28 | They 've made him redundant . |
| 29 | Ooh , now you 've made him mad ! |
| 30 | Nearly half a century of debauchery had made him immune to such mundane feelings . |