Example sentences of "he [vb past] to make [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas received them all himself , saying that ‘ It might be hoped that they came for their own good or his own , for he lived to make himself or others better . ’ |
| 2 | He tentatively placed a hand on her left breast , and let it remain there , not quite sure what to do next as he tried to make himself slightly more comfortable . |
| 3 | He shouted to make himself heard above the din : " I want to see you at once , " |
| 4 | As for Eliot himself , he seemed to make himself absolutely at home , as he usually did in a small gathering , and he swung his leg over the arm of the comfortable chair , where it reposed throughout the visit . |
| 5 | He began to make himself a few pence early on — running messages , collecting newspapers for the chip shops and horse dung for fertiliser , finding the pay-penny cracks in life on the narrow streets . |
| 6 | Then he decided to make himself an omelette . |
| 7 | From the start he struggled to make himself heard above jeers and cheers . |
| 8 | And as he struggled to make himself understood , there was n't a dry eye to be seen . |
| 9 | For her to like him he had to make himself invisible . |
| 10 | He had to make himself heard . |
| 11 | He was using his ‘ goon 's ’ voice , the one he put on when he wanted to make himself sound like a harmless imbecile . |
| 12 | " He wanted to make himself grotesque . |
| 13 | So from the first he attempted to make himself master of the city — a prelude to an active policy not only to control Rome but to restore the Papal State to its old frontiers . |
| 14 | At school he laboured to make himself better than all the others . |
| 15 | She could see by his self-satisfied expression that he intended to make himself a fixture , and somehow , despite her friendship with Elaine , the thought of having to work closely with James on a day-to-day basis made Christina 's flesh crawl . |