Example sentences of "that make him [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He was angry with himself , and that made him reckless . |
2 | A natural Maestro , born with something in his genes that made him capable of re-inventing the workings of the Reconciliation ? |
3 | Even though her hitherto slim figure was heavy with child , there was a beauty about her , a certain dignity , that made him proud . |
4 | But then , it was not his good looks that made him famous . |
5 | As Jimmy , Hoffman elaborates the film role that made him famous , Benjamin in The Graduate , and he is a thoroughly charming actor with sufficient off-beat idiosyncrasies to make him a spiny delight . |
6 | A renowned rock guitarist is going back on the road with a new band , ten years after leaving the group that made him famous . |
7 | There was something about those faces , however , that made him uneasy and coming nearer he saw that they had been terribly pocked by round shot and musket fire , as if by a disfiguring disease . |
8 | There was something about the memory of that evening that made him uneasy . |
9 | Perhaps it was this very indecision that made him depressed . |
10 | It was not just the flower-beds marked by dying crocuses and the general air of neglect , with last autumn 's leaves left to rot in sunless corners , that made him depressed . |
11 | Both victim and aggressor would be immune from moral judgment ; the former for taking whatever social path it was that made him vulnerable and the latter for unleashing his fury , frustrations or whatever , upon the passive recipient of his cruelty and wrath . |
12 | He was a spare , grizzled man , who limped with the gout that made him ill-tempered , so unlike the dandified figure of Lord Dacre 's vague memory that he felt wholly disorientated in his presence . |
13 | Nathan thought bitterly about how it was only his abnormality that made him suitable for Leila 's purposes . |
14 | Just in time , Dick developed a viral nasty that made him lethargic . |
15 | He was never going to be Pavarotti , but there was something about him that made him great . ’ |
16 | She relied a good deal on Lessing , whom she disliked but who had qualities that made him useful to her ; he was able to work out salaries , including those of his cousins in the Hampstead house , the expenses of running the theatre , lighting , heating , cleaning . |
17 | What if it was her feebleness that made him impatient ? |
18 | The figure in the seat was human , as far as he could make out in the murky light , but there was something about the awkward way it was sprawled in the chair that made him glad he could n't see it any clearer . |
19 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
20 | Something that made him different ? |
21 | He intrigued her , there was something about the way he acted , the way he spoke that made him different from all the other vagrants that she had met . |
22 | Intellectual reviewers took him up in left-wing papers because of his music-hall background and appreciated him in a way that made him wretched . |
23 | It was a smell like rotting meat , a rancid , cloying odour that made him nauseous . |
24 | ‘ And I am reliably informed that makes him dependable , trustworthy — and loyal unto death ! ’ |
25 | You wonder , is it something to do with cerebral palsy that makes him clever or is it just that his mother is musical anyway ? |
26 | Thus Akhsharumov directs the reader to something that makes him certain he holds a masterpiece in his hands before he has read half a dozen pages : a single pre-natal life , a foetal stirring and growth , no ordinary robust narrative sense of something afoot . |
27 | ‘ As a politician that makes him unusual , surely . ’ |
28 | It is the sense of striving that makes him interesting . |