Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to make he [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 2 | And , anyway , it was from the British he made his money , selling them scrap iron during the war , so it will be an extra pleasure to make him cough up that sort of loot . ’ |
| 3 | He was thinking — and something had happened that day to make him do so — about the first time he had seen the female golden eagle in the Zoo . |
| 4 | She put on an adopted cosy accent to make him laugh , but she was no mimic and the effort was arthritic . |
| 5 | He also knew that shouting at Lennie was the only way to make him understand . |
| 6 | If the Tellenoreans had got into Pike 's body , was n't this a slightly odd thing to make him do ? |
| 7 | She professed love for Gentle at intervals , but not with sufficient consistency to make him think he could prise her from her husband , even if he wanted to , which he was by no means certain he did . |
| 8 | At the inquest into his death and those he killed the sergeant said he saw nothing in the dead officer to make him question his state of mind . |