Example sentences of "[noun sg] make him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their casual acceptance of his presence made him edgy . |
| 2 | Will his ideology make him close the border , or will economic self-interest keep it open , at least for a time ? |
| 3 | Accumulated emotion made him weak , needing her . |
| 4 | He studied medicine for two years but the sight of blood made him sick so , always a lover of shopping , he defected to the world of retail . |
| 5 | The smell of fresh bread from a bakery made him hungry but he did not stop . |
| 6 | The teasing in the dormitory made him sick with anger . |
| 7 | Still , he would have done if it had n't slipped his mind , and surely the intention made him culpable . |
| 8 | He is ever confused and his confusion makes him angry and I can not see that it can be helped though it is hard to endure . |
| 9 | But his workload makes him susceptible to fluid depletion and liable to be among the 35 per cent of marathon runners who suffer knee damage . |
| 10 | Darren Bicknell is impressed with Benjamin : ‘ His slingy action makes him difficult to pick up . |
| 11 | The old women of the town marvelled at a child whose intellect had been ‘ forced into almost an unnatural ripeness ’ , and their flattery made him vain : |
| 12 | There are dozens of ministers , some highly qualified , who have been purged from the leadership by Mr Ceausescu , usually because they disagreed with him on particular issues or because their superior intelligence made him insecure . |
| 13 | Adrenalin withdrawal made him introspective and sleepy . |
| 14 | And there were others less distinguished , perhaps , but whose lively presence made any visit memorable ; for instance , Mr Wilkinson , valet-butler to Mr John Campbell , with his well-known repertoire of impersonations of prominent gentlemen ; Mr Davidson from Easterly House , whose passion in debating a point could at times be as alarming to a stranger as his simple kindness at all other times was endearing ; Mr Herman , valet to Mr John Henry peters , whose extreme views no one could listen to passively , but whose distinctive belly-laugh and Yorkshire charm made him impossible to dislike . |
| 15 | His lack of possessiveness made him fearless . |
| 16 | Tolkien 's contention was that something he called ‘ the ulsterior motive ’ — the bogey of Lewis 's Ulster background — lurked beneath the surface of his imagination , and rose when he was off his guard to make him brutal in manners , crude or illogical in thought . |
| 17 | Well normally he says a salad makes him hungry . |
| 18 | At the Castello di Rivoli , Turin , which he headed from 1984 to 1990 , his very liberal interpretation of what was meant by a part time post made him unpopular . |
| 19 | Embarrassment made him awkward . |
| 20 | Powerful actors , especially , are able to make a difference to things ; for example King Louis XV 's lasciviousness made him indulgent toward Madame de Pompa-dour , who was therefore able to protect the position of the incompetent General Soubise in spite of the fact that his army was unreliable in defending France 's military interests . |
| 21 | but the slant of the heat haze made him unsure . |
| 22 | Just the thought of having her around the place made him irritable . |
| 23 | It 's your job to make him interested . |
| 24 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 25 | The warm air from the stove made him sleepy , and he forgot to open one of the air-holes before going to sleep . |
| 26 | But the fact that he had won a signal victory over the headmaster on Monday night made him reluctant to pit himself against him again so soon . |
| 27 | It 'll do him good to get out for a while ; it 's being cooped up indoors all day makes him fidgety . ’ |
| 28 | You 'd expect the unhelpful advance publicity to make him wary of the Press . |
| 29 | Much more important than this was Tolkien 's vast imaginative life , one day to make him famous as author of The Lord of the Rings , but at this date completely hidden from all but his family and close friends . |
| 30 | His age made him senior partner , and Gemma wished he were not . |