Example sentences of "him [vb infin] [adj] and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was rime on his beard , making him appear grizzled and old . |
| 2 | An urban lad , such wide open spaces made him feel exposed and uncomfortable . |
| 3 | The work ahead began to make him feel over-rested and dangerous , like a fat lion . |
| 4 | The wine he had drunk earlier in the day , his exertions and fear , made him feel warm and sleepy . |
| 5 | Richard approved of my having an ‘ interest ’ now it did not dominate my life and make his uncomfortable , and the fact that his political opinions were different from mine , made him feel tolerant and wise . |
| 6 | Comedian Michael Bentine recounted that he had asked a sensitive why some parts of the chalk countryside around Folkestone , where he lived , gave him a great feeling of security and peace while others made him feel uncomfortable and nervous . |
| 7 | Her beauty and glamour and downlooking to him made him feel worthless and common . |
| 8 | It made him feel chilled and sober , as if the love and vodka had never been . |
| 9 | Owen knew his parents had been having aromatherapy massage , so I think it made him feel grown-up and important . |
| 10 | It was a wonderful feeling , to disappear like that ; it made him feel different and special . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It made him feel superior and worldly wise . |
| 13 | She was also flushed and evidently in a state of unrest , which made him feel chivalrous and sympathetic . |
| 14 | The sound it made rustling outside in the trees made him feel comfortable and protected . |
| 15 | ‘ He liked one dog , ’ said Ludens , ‘ it made him feel relaxed and tender . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ They was clean on at beginning o' week , ’ said master dyer Mike Barraclough , ruefully surveying rainbow-spattered grey trousers as 47 assorted housewives , secretaries and teachers on a Rowan Travel weekend crowded in to see him chuck red and yellow powders into a battered plastic measuring jug . |
| 17 | There are in the Musée two memorable and characteristic El Greco portraits , of a duke all in black and a cardinal ; some excellent Ingres , including a full-length portrait of the depressing King Charles X , looking depressing , and an ample-backed Baigneuse or Woman Bathing ; a Goya self portrait , among other pictures by him , making him look mild and harmless ; some British pictures , by Constable , Lawrence , Reynolds and Raeburn ; a Géricault and an agitated Delacroix showing Job tormented by Demons ; and some fine drawings , of which Bonn at had a most notable collection , too large to be displayed in toto , by artists from the early Italians onwards . |
| 18 | Gone was the waxed jacket and jeans , replaced by a dinner-jacket that made him look formal and distinguished — and even more dangerously attractive . |