Example sentences of "[conj] make him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For your own sake you should get rid of him — or make him live out , ’ Frank said quietly after a period of silence . |
| 2 | He was angry with himself , and that made him reckless . |
| 3 | A natural Maestro , born with something in his genes that made him capable of re-inventing the workings of the Reconciliation ? |
| 4 | Even though her hitherto slim figure was heavy with child , there was a beauty about her , a certain dignity , that made him proud . |
| 5 | But then , it was not his good looks that made him famous . |
| 6 | As Jimmy , Hoffman elaborates the film role that made him famous , Benjamin in The Graduate , and he is a thoroughly charming actor with sufficient off-beat idiosyncrasies to make him a spiny delight . |
| 7 | A renowned rock guitarist is going back on the road with a new band , ten years after leaving the group that made him famous . |
| 8 | There was something about those faces , however , that made him uneasy and coming nearer he saw that they had been terribly pocked by round shot and musket fire , as if by a disfiguring disease . |
| 9 | There was something about the memory of that evening that made him uneasy . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was this very indecision that made him depressed . |
| 11 | It was not just the flower-beds marked by dying crocuses and the general air of neglect , with last autumn 's leaves left to rot in sunless corners , that made him depressed . |
| 12 | Both victim and aggressor would be immune from moral judgment ; the former for taking whatever social path it was that made him vulnerable and the latter for unleashing his fury , frustrations or whatever , upon the passive recipient of his cruelty and wrath . |
| 13 | He was a spare , grizzled man , who limped with the gout that made him ill-tempered , so unlike the dandified figure of Lord Dacre 's vague memory that he felt wholly disorientated in his presence . |
| 14 | Nathan thought bitterly about how it was only his abnormality that made him suitable for Leila 's purposes . |
| 15 | Just in time , Dick developed a viral nasty that made him lethargic . |
| 16 | He was never going to be Pavarotti , but there was something about him that made him great . ’ |
| 17 | She relied a good deal on Lessing , whom she disliked but who had qualities that made him useful to her ; he was able to work out salaries , including those of his cousins in the Hampstead house , the expenses of running the theatre , lighting , heating , cleaning . |
| 18 | What if it was her feebleness that made him impatient ? |
| 19 | The figure in the seat was human , as far as he could make out in the murky light , but there was something about the awkward way it was sprawled in the chair that made him glad he could n't see it any clearer . |
| 20 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 21 | Something that made him different ? |
| 22 | He intrigued her , there was something about the way he acted , the way he spoke that made him different from all the other vagrants that she had met . |
| 23 | Intellectual reviewers took him up in left-wing papers because of his music-hall background and appreciated him in a way that made him wretched . |
| 24 | It was a smell like rotting meat , a rancid , cloying odour that made him nauseous . |
| 25 | ‘ And I am reliably informed that makes him dependable , trustworthy — and loyal unto death ! ’ |
| 26 | You wonder , is it something to do with cerebral palsy that makes him clever or is it just that his mother is musical anyway ? |
| 27 | Thus Akhsharumov directs the reader to something that makes him certain he holds a masterpiece in his hands before he has read half a dozen pages : a single pre-natal life , a foetal stirring and growth , no ordinary robust narrative sense of something afoot . |
| 28 | ‘ As a politician that makes him unusual , surely . ’ |
| 29 | It is the sense of striving that makes him interesting . |
| 30 | Having waited so long to hear from the ‘ one man ’ who knew what had happened , when he appeared they could do nothing but gaze on him ; having made him into a celluloid star , there was no reason at this point to spoil it , and make him real . |