Example sentences of "makes him [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 'll do him good to get out for a while ; it 's being cooped up indoors all day makes him fidgety . ’
2 Robin Williams has precisely the driving , egomaniacal but mischievous quality which makes him believable as a grown-up Peter Pan .
3 So you John now Jonathan he 's only fifteen , I know he looks in his twenties , but he 's only fifteen and he 's done a lot of homework so it makes him late and it makes him uncomfortable and he 's fidgety because he knows he 's got to disturb us when he goes out , he does n't does n't enjoy disturbing us , so I have to make that clear to you .
4 Every moment I am conscious of those little differences which , although appearing minute to the layman , to the dancer constitute the difference between the amateur and that je ne sais quoi which makes him professional .
5 That 's all he gives away ; any further questioning makes him irritable and he refuses to answer further on this point .
6 He says that the pain is so great that it brings tears to his eyes , makes him grumpy , and means he 's sometimes confined to his armchair for days on end .
7 But his workload makes him susceptible to fluid depletion and liable to be among the 35 per cent of marathon runners who suffer knee damage .
8 I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it .
9 He does n't seem to have any friends , and that obviously makes him unhappy .
10 So you John now Jonathan he 's only fifteen , I know he looks in his twenties , but he 's only fifteen and he 's done a lot of homework so it makes him late and it makes him uncomfortable and he 's fidgety because he knows he 's got to disturb us when he goes out , he does n't does n't enjoy disturbing us , so I have to make that clear to you .
11 Thus Akhsharumov directs the reader to something that makes him certain he holds a masterpiece in his hands before he has read half a dozen pages : a single pre-natal life , a foetal stirring and growth , no ordinary robust narrative sense of something afoot .
12 ‘ And I am reliably informed that makes him dependable , trustworthy — and loyal unto death ! ’
13 Anyone with a passing knowledge of astrological influences will realize that he was born on the cusp , a Taurus caught in the influence of Aries , which makes him bullish and a bit of a ram .
14 That 's what you call a grounding , and it 's what makes him confident if he does get to meet Big Ron at Villa Park next season .
15 You wonder , is it something to do with cerebral palsy that makes him clever or is it just that his mother is musical anyway ?
16 His lack of a definable role makes him impossible to manage .
17 Merseyside has a weary scepticism about grand planning gestures , but Broome 's Alton Towers vision makes him impossible to ignore .
18 Resistance makes him great !
19 This makes him free to wear whatever ideological clothing suits the fashion of the moment .
20 The sore , bruised , aching feeling makes him restless ; always having to change position .
21 However early in the novel he has an experience which makes him aware of a significantly different kind of memory , and this is of course the famous incident in which as a young man he dips a small cake , a madeleine , into a cup of tea .
22 Well normally he says a salad makes him hungry .
23 ‘ As a politician that makes him unusual , surely . ’
24 Bones stresses the importance of language in the Rastafarian religious culture : " according to Rasta doctrine and reasoning , a language must have great significance in terms of its words , sounds and 'powah' , which means 'power' … the 'powah' <+; > is what gives Rasta strength and makes him formidable " ( 1986a : 48 – 9 ) .
25 He is ever confused and his confusion makes him angry and I can not see that it can be helped though it is hard to endure .
26 He gets scared , and that makes him angry . ’
27 And he 's banging on the engine cos it makes him sick
28 He says it makes him sick .
29 ‘ The goal Eric scored makes him attractive to me , ’ said the Leeds manager .
30 With the robust acceptance of hardship and violence proper to his time , he is opposed to flogging and has an open demeanour towards his crew which makes him popular but still respected .
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