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

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1 She stood defiantly in front of him , shaking her head , trying desperately to find the words to make him realise that she was tired , due for leave , and really felt he should ask someone else .
2 One 's the need to make him let me go .
3 That bit about throwing the stone up the alley to make him rush off after it , I got that from a detective story .
4 Only how the devil to make him believe that ?
5 What sort of twisted thoughts went through my father 's brain at the time to make him choose such a name for the child I can not start to imagine , but that was the name Angus chose for his new son .
6 So she hit him on the face to make him prick his ears !
7 All he needed , he sometimes thought , was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant .
8 ‘ So long as your prick is n't made of wood as well as ! ’ she had said with a laugh to make him feel easy .
9 There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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