Example sentences of "they [verb] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne closed her eyes , opened them to see him lift his hands to cover his face , his head bent , shoulders bowed , his world in ruins about him . |
| 2 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 3 | He impressed Meredith Jones as he impressed Philip Burton — both to an extent that they had never been impressed before , driving them to help him help himself . |
| 4 | He 'd have been better off getting them to help him compose a Dear Marje letter . |
| 5 | I took that part to mean about trust between him and the board , ie he trusted them to let him have the final say etc etc . |
| 6 | Neither of them saw him go . |
| 7 | Nan why do they make him wear the trousers like ? |
| 8 | He nearly had a nervous breakdown so they made him go to Plumford . |
| 9 | the school are doing nothing , okay what did they do , they stopped the money , yeah , they stopped him from having money , they made him pay money back which I 'm pleased about that he got |
| 10 | but it , he paid back five quid well Geoffrey said in reality it must of been about twenty quid that kid had taken but er he said they made him pay back five pounds , so at least they |
| 11 | The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy . |
| 12 | He did n't want to watch the quiet parade of students — they made him feel so damned old . |
| 13 | But it was the way they made him feel . |
| 14 | When he soundly supported the principle of women priests they made him modify his statement . |
| 15 | There they made him sing them a song and were enchanted by the noises which came out . |
| 16 | Stuart wondered if they made him stand out there , or if he chose to . |
| 17 | They made him drink too much . |
| 18 | They made him dig a grave in the rocky ground at 1.00 am and then forced him to lie in it while they shovelled earth over him . |
| 19 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 20 | In fact they made him look like a schoolboy showing off his Cadet uniform to a schoolgirl who was really more into sending her underwear to Prince or David Lee Roth . |
| 21 | But they made him realize that he was getting across what he wanted to get across , and not a holy-sounding fog of words . |
| 22 | They made him strip , put a plastic bag over his head and then poured petrol over him . |
| 23 | In other words , they make him feel less helpless in the face of adversity . |
| 24 | They make him work . ’ |
| 25 | Some methods avoid native language explanations altogether on the grounds that such explanations can only be abstract and confusing to the learner , and that they make him spend his time not so much in learning the language but rather in learning about the language ( Mackey 1965 p 240 ) . |
| 26 | They make him look fat . |
| 27 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 28 | He looked suspicious at first , and so did the Japanese waiters as they helped him pull his tuba case through the very narrow doorway . |
| 29 | They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand . |
| 30 | I was surprised they let him do that . |