Example sentences of "to make him [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serafin knows now why Summerchild was so reluctant to let him see this place and so anxious to make him settle for the dingy remoteness of Northumberland Avenue . |
| 2 | Tuan Ti Fo made to correct him — to make him take from the bowl of black stones — but the boy was insistent . |
| 3 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 4 | There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde . |
| 5 | They will not tell you a lot about what 's going to make him tick as an adult , except that he might be good at a particular academic subject . ’ |
| 6 | Jacques Devraux had not troubled to make him known to the senator , but while his father made a final check of the baggage truck , Paul Devraux had patted him affectionately on the shoulder and introduced him to them as " the great all-purpose Annamese genie Ngo Van Loc , who 's houseboy , camp boy , chauffeur and indispensable general assistant to the humble Devraux family . " |
| 7 | From any of these positions I would be crazy to make him play with the left knee inflamed the way it is . ’ |
| 8 | She put her head on one side , trying to make him understand from the look in her eyes that Stephen had been upset by the references to his mother 's death . |