Example sentences of "[adj] make 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 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 .
3 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 ’ .
4 This made him popular at home , but enraged Alexander III .
5 This made him aware of how much he 'd been missing before in the cold , masculine environment of the academy .
6 But he has also confessed , and this makes him special .
7 This makes him free to wear whatever ideological clothing suits the fashion of the moment .
8 ‘ What was it he had that made him mean so much to you in the war ? ’ asked Greg .
9 Holy Living and Holy Dying made him famous and went through twenty editions in the next fifty years .
10 A gutfucking combination of inexpensive liquor and a couple of ampoules which were supposed to make him euphoric .
11 He slapped on a little of a new musk aftershave that was supposed to make him irresistible — not too much , he hated obviousness in men .
12 The rooks , the Men , the staring People , all made him angry .
13 The onset of World War I made him responsible for the design and erection of explosives plant for the Ministry of Munitions , as well as plants for heavy chemicals , dyestuffs , intermediates , and synthetic drugs which , until that time , had been imported from Germany .
14 He says being jobless makes him miserable and bored .
15 Those whose ‘ condition is due to improvidence or thriftlessness and there is no hope of being able to make him independent in the future ’ were left to destitution or the Poor Law .
16 Isobel soon realized that she had not made , from her point of view , the wisest of marriages , but Peter was very kind to her and she did her best to make him happy .
17 He gets scared , and that makes him angry . ’
18 Just in case Lord Milton failed to appreciate his value , MacLachlan stressed that he had been approached by the rival interest in the county and had been offered sufficient to make him easy for life , and accordingly implied that Milton had an obligation to aid him with his creditors and enable him to arrange further loans .
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