Example sentences of "i [verb] he [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know , but how can I make him eat when he refuses ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Can I make him come out ? |
| 3 | How can I make him see his colleagues will look down on him if he says in the same old rut ? |
| 4 | How can I make him see ? thought Juliet , a little sadly . |
| 5 | ‘ That was because I came from the most stable period of his life and I made him feel secure . ’ |
| 6 | I made him repeat and repeat the lessons until they started to sink in and became easier . |
| 7 | I made him undo my hands , he was like someone in a trance , and then I undressed him and I undressed myself . |
| 8 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 9 | He looks very ragged , so I made him go to bed and get some sleep . ’ |
| 10 | So he did n't like it cos I made him go . |
| 11 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |
| 12 | I made him shake hands , but I bet he breathed a sigh of relief when he got outside again . |
| 13 | I made him sit down and then I sat down on his lap . |
| 14 | How I made him betray what he believed ! ’ |
| 15 | why I made him tell you . |
| 16 | I made him take an oath |
| 17 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 18 | I made him take me by giving myself to him like a slave . |
| 19 | I made him take me round and round , ten or twelve times . |
| 20 | So I , I made him swap places as , er , with Bryony and of course he wou he was n't sitting there ! |
| 21 | I made him let me walk in the cellar this morning . |
| 22 | As soon as he came in I made him let me look at his head , and I dabbed some Dettol on it . |
| 23 | But I made him put his coat on . |
| 24 | No I took the sheets off , I made him put his own sheets on . |
| 25 | I made him look at me and see how pale I am . |
| 26 | I made him promise . |
| 27 | Oh well I made him worry |
| 28 | I made him wait hours . |
| 29 | I made him understand that he was to stay where he was and I would return in a few minutes with a tin of tobacco . |
| 30 | ‘ He gets mad when Gary does n't sleep , he says it 's my fault , he says I make him do it — and — ’ She stopped again . |