Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 2 | That made him more like Oedipus than Faust . |
| 3 | Branagh , too , talks like a winner , and Henry V offers him better than any other play in the repertoire what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle . |
| 4 | To a degree this made him vulnerable : Vichy propagandists had an opportunity to fill in the blanks , by vilifying him as a deserter in the pay of the British or of Jewish interests . |
| 5 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
| 6 | He knew he was slow-witted ; so many things that were simple for other people quite defeated him , and he was aware that this made him different — he had even heard himself referred to as ‘ not all there ’ . |
| 7 | This made him popular at home , but enraged Alexander III . |
| 8 | This made him aware of how much he 'd been missing before in the cold , masculine environment of the academy . |
| 9 | Colleagues and pupils thought of him as formidable ; a few found him frightening , a few found him affable . |
| 10 | Colleagues and pupils thought of him as formidable ; a few found him frightening , a few found him affable . |
| 11 | This was indeed his year for honours since in January he had been awarded the Order of Merit by George VI ; some have said that this gratified him more than the Nobel , and certainly he seemed to enjoy wearing the medal and ribbon on ceremonial occasions . |
| 12 | This allows him some respite at least and his home life is less subject to instant upheaval . |
| 13 | Fit him in , will you , when I 'm free to give him some time . |
| 14 | This keeps him happy until it is time to go to the nursery by which time she has cleared up the mess . |
| 15 | And , however badly Ratner appears to have screwed up the company 's finances — and public image — some people are said to be still willing to give him financial support . |
| 16 | it 's just a matter of him sort of saying that 's perfectly okay , I mean , you can get a copy of that or phone call from them , well , if he 's , if he 's not happy with anything , they , they 're quite willing to contact him direct |
| 17 | Third , the floating charge holder will be able to take steps to enforce the charge and , as will be seen , this accords him considerable control over the company 's affairs . |
| 18 | Few find him more than adequate and even fewer describe him as good or even satisfactory . |
| 19 | Sometimes this brought him close to disaster . |
| 20 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 21 | Mozart also hoped that Count Seeau would be prepared to pay him 200 gulden per year . |
| 22 | This gave him all the honour 's lands in Richmondshire except , it seems the castle itself , a deficiency made good in 1478 . |
| 23 | This gave him all the honour 's lands in Richmondshire except , it seems the castle itself , a deficiency made good in 1478 . |
| 24 | This gave him ample opportunities to put the British case . |
| 25 | Kendall was able to check his results to an extent , since much of his data related to villages whose location was known , and this gave him some confidence in suggesting the locations of the lost villages . |
| 26 | They bathed his arm again but with the water of the brook instead of wine , and though this gave him brief ease he was soon moaning and tossing again . |
| 27 | They bathed his arm again but with the water of the brook instead of wine , and though this gave him brief ease he was soon moaning and tossing again . |
| 28 | lets hope this gives him some confidence . |
| 29 | ( And does this prove him saner , or madder , this need for a face , however dead ? ) |
| 30 | Some call him mad . |