Example sentences of "[noun] to make him [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It takes a lot of gratuitous cruelty perpetrated in the name of dogma to make him criticize the Party , as when the ‘ Attack the Evil Winds of Capitalism Team ’ tells the old peasant Guo Lao-da to kill the six ‘ capitalist ’ ducks he owns .
2 He does not require an imperative to make him avoid the sickness from the thought of which he already shrinks in nausea ; what he has to force himself to do is hold on to the fact that sickness is the likely outcome of yielding to temptation .
3 However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection .
4 But her plan to make him sing the Neil Diamond song Nobody Brings Me Flowers live on air fell through .
5 If the accused uses force on a railway signalman to make him stop a train , it is robbery if the accused steals from the train .
6 They carted him like a scarecrow , his heels scoring the gravel , but he was as stubborn as a pig in a cart , he would never squeal without a hard prod ; Donald Stewart the blacksmith had to grip his wrist to make him sign the paper .
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