Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to make him as comfortable as possible and with the assistance of a French Commando placed a shell dressing into the large wound in his back . |
| 2 | He 'd been glaring and smashing down glasses on the table and muttering under his breath and I wondered what on earth I 'd done to make him so disturbed , and then I realised I had n't done anything . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know what was going on in his mind but it was n't going to do him much good . |
| 4 | I feel I 've got to show him how decent human beings live and behave . |
| 5 | The crab-like hand reached him , closed around his belt , and began to drag him relentlessly clear . |
| 6 | I wonder what it is that intervenes to make him so self-destructive ? ’ |
| 7 | Try to give him as laid-back a lifestyle as possible — do n't punish him if you catch him spraying , or he 'll feel even more insecure . |
| 8 | I always try to make him more conscious of taking the club away on the inside with a shallow path by turning , not by pulling it in with his arms . |
| 9 | If she found he was pro-British and being forced to collaborate , the Marine Commandoes would endeavour to get him out alive . |
| 10 | One or two of the people he spoke to found him politically fascinating , even if they did take his style of callous irony with no irony of their own . |
| 11 | She could not bear to see him so miserable and cast down . |
| 12 | Kraal who had been Woil 's greatest mocker and enemy now became his greatest friend , for he admired Woil 's cunning and quick thinking , and grieved to see him so downcast . |
| 13 | A stand-up , straight-backed style has proved to be less effective against professional opponents although Biggs claims that attempts to make him more aggressive were counter-productive against Tyson . |
| 14 | An odd move , to be sure , at a time when prices were falling — and in a rather smart street , too , where such a venture would not be guaranteed to make him instantly popular with the neighbours , as customers came in one door and noisome smells came out of another . |