Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Vologsky kept his face grave , but the surging relief inside him made it impossible to inject quite the right note of abject apology into his voice . |
2 | Actually he was a very nice man , cheerful and good-natured , but the other side of him blotted it all out . |
3 | Oh , it was big before he started , but he made it great . |
4 | He made it 6-3 with a 90 break , and after 52 minutes of tactical battling potted the pink for 7-3 and ran away with the next to go five up with six to play . |
5 | He made it 6-3 with a 90 break , and after 52 minutes of tactical battling potted the pink for 7-3 and ran away with the next to go five up with six to play . |
6 | I understand that he made it complete . ’ |
7 | He was well-read and clever , and he made it easy for stupid men to respect his intellect if he thought they could be of use to him . |
8 | By displaying a map of the area he made it easy to understand his talk and he emphasised the enormous size of Brazil . |
9 | But Under-21 boss Craig Brown said : ‘ I felt Darren was unfortunate , but he made it easy for the official by a slight push . |
10 | And so he made it easy for me . |
11 | He thought I was too silly for words , but he made it possible for me to keep Perdita , so I 'll always be grateful . ’ |
12 | Father took you and the youngster in twelve … no , thirteen years ago ; he made it possible for you not |
13 | He made it possible for the duke and his eight-months pregnant duchess to rush back from Germany to Kensington Palace for the birth , putting up the royal cavalcade at his home in Shooter 's Hill on the way . |
14 | He made it all seem easy , producing an excellent meal , and the lunch party at the Commanding Officer 's residence went off without a hitch . |
15 | ‘ He made it all simple , ’ said Dick . |
16 | With his long legs , he made it all look easy . |
17 | Some man , he said oh , he made it all sort of proper . |
18 | ‘ It was certainly in England that he made it first . |
19 | The conclusion drawn in the Malleus Maleficarum , the handbook on witchcraft written in 1486 by two Dominican friars , was that this made tears displeasing to the Devil , and he made it impossible for witches to cry so that they would never find repentance . |
20 | But Hector , with his booming laugh , was so large and overpowering that he made it worse . |
21 | I do n't think it was just because he made it back-to-back wins , either . |
22 | I can see he made it tough for you . ’ |
23 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
24 | Mr Buchan is also a conoisseur of socialist folk-singing : he made it clear that he would find it hard to set the policy review to traditional music : ‘ I am a primeval socialist . ’ |
25 | But he made it clear that , in these identifications , desire and politics were inseparable . |
26 | He felt that , with a wife and child to support , he should be paid what he was worth , and he made it clear that he was not prepared to give in when he thought he had a good case . |
27 | After other speeches condemning Ian Paisley , Terence O'Neill rose and delivered a long statement in which he made it clear that he regarded the defeat of Ian Paisley as a central part of his reforming Unionism . |
28 | He made it clear that , as well as a commitment from ‘ day one ’ to legislation on proportional representation , followed by a referendum , he would insist on being part of a coalition government with Cabinet posts for his MPs . |
29 | When Tommy was interviewed at the time , he made it clear that he was a man with his sights firmly set on the future , and so it is no surprise that in 1991 , Tommy Rodgers is again setting new standards . |
30 | He made it clear that at that point a judgement would be taken as to whether the draft treaty was acceptable or not . |