Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] make he [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aware that Fred was waiting , hoping to change her mind , she tried again to make him see it her way . |
| 2 | He was burrowing into responsibilities , looking for them almost , for they gave substance to that which bound Emily to him — and still the shock of jealousy pulsed occasionally making him shudder so that he blushed to seem to be shivering . |
| 3 | the strangeness of that thought suddenly made him miss the château . |
| 4 | Something else Hugh saw nearly made him gibber . |
| 5 | What he saw there made him groan again . |
| 6 | In the following sentence , the effect introduced by the use of the to infinitive is even more striking : ( 190 ) … what he saw there made him falter and repeat himself and then suddenly to explode into a cry . |
| 7 | I guessed , but did not make him confirm my guess . |
| 8 | It did not make him feel any cleaner . |
| 9 | As he tried to grab me , I feinted , slipped back to make him follow me , knowing he would think I was afraid , and then I let him have a classic straight left that hit him on the point of the jaw . |
| 10 | Erm , that his father did n't make him go to school . |
| 11 | There were two girls even older than him who also could n't read , but it did n't make him feel any better . |
| 12 | Tammuz smiled but it did n't make him look cheerful . |
| 13 | But the smile did n't make him look more attractive , it made him look more dangerous . |
| 14 | Watching this violation of the body 's orifices , preliminaries to the scientific brutality to follow , had always made him feel uncomfortably like a voyeur . |
| 15 | No dog , he noticed , but Cara 's son , the silent child who had always made him feel so ill at ease , still sitting by the hearth as if he had grown there from a morose three-year-old into a clean and tidy , almost dandified five . |
| 16 | She wanted desperately to make him understand that she was n't the kind of girl Giles had labelled her . |