Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] him [verb] " in BNC.

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1 For one colleague in that Department , this experience was the initial point of contact with the study of language in relation to the educational process , and it led him to undertake an Open University degree including as many options in that area as were available .
2 She was talking to him as if he was grown-up and it made him feel uncomfortable .
3 Colin was furious , and it made him feel strong .
4 He was , then , a big , overgrown , shy man of twenty-eight who had never loved anyone before and it made him feel happy and strong and confident .
5 He had found himself begging and it made him feel undignified .
6 He had read the expression on her face correctly , and it made him pause , uncertain suddenly .
7 He stopped when he saw the twisted grin on Luther 's face , and it made him remember with a falling heart that this man was not his real father .
8 But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like .
9 He still felt human pain , and it made him retch .
10 Remorse had drawn Thomas there and it kept him pinned , though he was also wild for flight .
11 There was no acknowledgement of betrayal in his orderly world and it left him floundering .
12 He liked on occasion to talk of his earlier days at his parents ' cottage in Scotland , and it amused him to remember that his sensitive mother could never bring herself to pronounce or write the word ‘ toilet paper ’ which was always , either in speech or on shopping lists , abbreviated simply to T.P.
13 Yes , she thought — because he liked power and it amused him to practise dominating people on her .
14 They clattered on the flagstoned pathway and it pleased him to hear himself so clearly .
15 It is more than this , it develops his mind , his emotion , and it helps him to express his feelings .
16 Forest assistant manager Ron Fenton said : ‘ The knee has swollen up , and it necessitated him going to hospital .
17 For the dealer who did want a good price , the procedure became a matter of negotiation , and it paid him to buy the market-maker a drink sometimes .
18 Aaron ( 7 ) was given an entrance exam which he passed and it allowed him to jump a grade .
19 And it expects him to keep a promise made to local priests that he intends to ‘ provide a Catholic desk for every Catholic pupil in Darlington where there is proven need ’ .
20 Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism .
21 This was an honorary and part-time position , but it enabled him to do his most effective and lasting work in Ireland , inspiring and helping the provost , after a period of political disruption , to revise the Statutes , establish regulations for degrees , appoint new staff and design new courses .
22 Kevin Inkster discarded the loose chain when he was dissatisfied with the cut it gave , but it made him realise that he was certainly on the right lines .
23 THE Prince of Wales was hissed at yesterday but it made him laugh .
24 Nigel assumed she was lying , but it made him feel better .
25 He tried it , crossing the corner of the demolition site , but it made him cough .
26 In another he found old shoes piled high on rusty tables and there was one room he thought very odd but it made him smile .
27 This ‘ compensation ’ method of walking may seem to get the patient on his feet more quickly than the modern method , but it leaves him overusing his unaffected side , therefore he is constantly increasing and fighting against his spasticity .
28 But it surpised him to learn just how revolutionary it was back in the 1940's .
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