Example sentences of "make him [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The probing nature of his role , acting as an ‘ expert ’ on behalf of the government to push the reform stragglers along , has inevitably made him unpopular in some social services quarters . |
| 2 | Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London . |
| 3 | Whisky had made him heavy in the torso and puffed up his face so that the true features were blurred , as if permanently in shadow . |
| 4 | In the intertestamental days we read of the Messiah , ‘ God will make him mighty in the Holy Spirit ’ ( Psalms of Solomon 17:37 ) , and in the Targum or Commentary on Isaiah 42 : 1 , the Servant is seen as the Messiah , and God says of him ‘ I will cause my Holy Spirit to rest on him . ’ |
| 5 | Richard wondered why living on a largish boat should automatically make him interested in small ones . |
| 6 | His long interest in the Philippines made him pivotal in preparing American opinion for the abandonment of Ferdinand Marcos ( President Corazon Aquino later hailed him as ‘ the Lafayette of the Philippine revolution ’ ) . |
| 7 | However , this effect may not last , and long-term follow-up is useful to ensure that the patient does not lapse into those unhealthy ways which made him unwell in the first place . |
| 8 | He miscalculated badly , forgetting the Tsar 's pride , which made him unyielding in his claim to be protector of the Greek Christians , and the reaction of the Sultan , who was weary of being pressured by the Powers and who feared for the security of his Empire . |
| 9 | The gaekwar of Baroda made him diwan in 1873 but Naoroji left after thirteen unhappy months . |
| 10 | I 'd get a brand new keyboard and Dad would have to make do with an old car — one that was always going wrong and making him embarrassed in front of his friends . |
| 11 | The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place . |
| 12 | Those whose ‘ condition is due to improvidence or thriftlessness and there is no hope of being able to make him independent in the future ’ were left to destitution or the Poor Law . |
| 13 | Tolkien 's contention was that something he called ‘ the ulsterior motive ’ — the bogey of Lewis 's Ulster background — lurked beneath the surface of his imagination , and rose when he was off his guard to make him brutal in manners , crude or illogical in thought . |