Example sentences of "it [vb -s] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and Lucy said it fits him lovely , but she was saving all the blue clothes |
| 2 | He himself is much better recorded in the studio performance but the new one has a certain documentary value , for it shows him 14 years later still singing the part magnificently , still ( for example ) achieving that remarkable effect at the climax of ‘ Or son sei mesi ’ when , by his phrasingover , the shame ( ‘ vergogna ’ ) becomes the agony ( ‘ ahime ’ ) , and now ( at a time when it must be tempting to broaden baritonally ) deliberately sharpening the edge and brightness of his tenor . |
| 3 | No it buys him more units . |
| 4 | I know , but it gets him depressed . |
| 5 | It does n't cost much for the ships to take him as a passenger , and it keeps him happy . " |
| 6 | Well , it 's all Greek to me , but so long as it keeps him happy . ’ |
| 7 | a driver says he 's got not idea how fast he goes … it takes him hundred of hours to get ready and then they come out and smash it up … there must be some logic he says … |
| 8 | I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ? |
| 9 | It gives him great pleasure to incarnate himself in the shape of man as Christ himself did . |
| 10 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 11 | He gets a lot of comfort from the breastfeed , and as he has never had a bottle , and does n't drink milk from a cup , I feel it gives him some nourishment , too . |
| 12 | But according to the agreement he has with the brewery , he is n't selling enough … and for every barrel he does n't sell , it fines him seventy pounds . |
| 13 | I mean they do n't put , they do n't , I understand in , in , when you 've got your own business like Brad and them , well our Joe ca n't be hard up he does a job and it brings him thirty grand in |
| 14 | It makes him worse . |
| 15 | If he is afforded the slightest respect it makes him worse , larger . ’ |
| 16 | So you John now Jonathan he 's only fifteen , I know he looks in his twenties , but he 's only fifteen and he 's done a lot of homework so it makes him late and it makes him uncomfortable and he 's fidgety because he knows he 's got to disturb us when he goes out , he does n't does n't enjoy disturbing us , so I have to make that clear to you . |
| 17 | So you John now Jonathan he 's only fifteen , I know he looks in his twenties , but he 's only fifteen and he 's done a lot of homework so it makes him late and it makes him uncomfortable and he 's fidgety because he knows he 's got to disturb us when he goes out , he does n't does n't enjoy disturbing us , so I have to make that clear to you . |
| 18 | Because it makes him mad . |
| 19 | And he 's banging on the engine cos it makes him sick |
| 20 | He says it makes him sick . |
| 21 | And if it makes him happy , what 's the harm ? ’ |