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 | ‘ I think it would just make him angry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It just makes him stubborn . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps we could minute Mr 's point , just to make him happy . |
| 13 | Yet the thought of being tied to Karen permanently made him sick . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | She had a terrible temper , and it always made him double up when she swore at him and clenched her fists . |
| 16 | It always made him sick when he was expected to watch the turkey-killings . |
| 17 | ‘ Do I still make him unsure of where he is putting his feet ? ’ |
| 18 | Carson had been before , but the place had always made him uneasy ; it was so Victorian in its assumptions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But it also made him invaluable as an occasional centre-forward . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | His love also made him jealous . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | Richard wondered why living on a largish boat should automatically make him interested in small ones . |
| 25 | It was easy for him ; the cloak of arrogance he habitually wore probably made him oblivious to the speculation of people like the receptionist . |
| 26 | His condition can also make him hyper-active , but at least he 's more aware of danger than he was before . |
| 27 | The circumstances in which Anselm used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae in these nine letters from 1101 to 1106 show that he knew that this phrase embodied the papal policy with which Hugh of Lyons had probably made him familiar , and which he was in duty bound to carry out in the matter of homage and investiture . |
| 28 | Fear often made him sarcastic ; he had noticed that before . |
| 29 | However , he had a darker side , and his commitment to his work , which often made him oblivious of companions ' feelings , was partly responsible for the failure of his first marriage . |
| 30 | The probing nature of his role , acting as an ‘ expert ’ on behalf of the government to push the reform stragglers along , has inevitably made him unpopular in some social services quarters . |