Example sentences of "[adv] make him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A kindly uncle with no children of his own had paid for him to be educated , but education only made him discontented with his lot in life . |
| 2 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 3 | He particularly enjoyed the fact that his vaguely cosmopolitan , vaguely raffish air not only made him attractive to certain high-born English gels , but led to such useful pillow-talk . |
| 4 | It is this element of Charlie that has perhaps made him popular with other ( albeit less twisted ) musicians . |
| 5 | He does n't seem to have any friends , and that obviously makes him unhappy . |
| 6 | I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it . |
| 7 | ‘ No more than two cups , certainly not enough to make him drunk . |
| 8 | Whether or not he felt an ounce of embarrassment ( probably not ) , it had to be enough to make him aware of waiters . |
| 9 | Wealth did not make him lavish , however ; he had always been careful about money — indeed , he was economical in all areas of life , even in small matters such as ensuring that all the tea in a tea-pot had actually been drunk — and Joseph Chiari has remembered how he kept a regular account of his expenses in a pocket notebook . |
| 10 | It does not make him docile or lazy , nor does it interfere with his sexual activities . |
| 11 | I decided that , whatever else happened , tonight I would not make him angry . |
| 12 | Mere negligence on the part of the recipient with respect to the safe custody of the thing will not make him liable . |
| 13 | negligently allowing the goods to be stolen ) would not make him liable for conversion though if he were a bailee of the goods he might be liable in detinue in such circumstances . |
| 14 | ‘ I think it would just make him angry . |
| 15 | On these rides , sometimes of many miles , he found things with which Emmanuel Congregational church and Repton school chapel had not made him familiar . |
| 16 | About the time this match took place , Tonks was in the IRB meeting room alongside the French delegate and was not impressed that they had not made him aware of the game — if they in fact knew about it . |
| 17 | The loss of the grip of the family during the critical adolescent years releases the youth from the ‘ straightening ’ influences , thus making him amenable to other fields of force . |
| 18 | It just makes him stubborn . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps we could minute Mr 's point , just to make him happy . |
| 20 | Yet the thought of being tied to Karen permanently made him sick . |
| 21 | ‘ Isambard would hardly make him privy to what he 's done , if this is indeed his work , as I swear I believe with all my soul it is , ’ said Owen . |
| 22 | She had a terrible temper , and it always made him double up when she swore at him and clenched her fists . |
| 23 | It always made him sick when he was expected to watch the turkey-killings . |
| 24 | ‘ Do I still make him unsure of where he is putting his feet ? ’ |
| 25 | Carson had been before , but the place had always made him uneasy ; it was so Victorian in its assumptions . |
| 26 | Yet the two females ' apparent significance also made him uneasy : he did not relish the revenge these men might mete out to him and his fellows if Sycorax were to die , or Ariel come to further harm . |
| 27 | But it also made him invaluable as an occasional centre-forward . |
| 28 | Both areas , breaking and mending , engrossed Dostoevsky from the time when the shared convict existence of prison snapped him like a dry biscuit yet also made him new , so that in the closing words of The House of the Dead , with the knocking off of his fetters , the narrator greets ‘ a new life , voskresenie from the dead ’ . |
| 29 | His love also made him jealous . |
| 30 | There was little dispute that D had committed the offence of dangerous driving , but did that automatically make him guilty of manslaughter when death resulted ? |