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Example sentences of "they [verb] him [vb infin] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Nan why do they make him wear the trousers like ?
2	He nearly had a nervous breakdown so they made him go to Plumford .
3	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
4	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
5	The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy .
6	He did n't want to watch the quiet parade of students — they made him feel so damned old .
7	But it was the way they made him feel .
8	When he soundly supported the principle of women priests they made him modify his statement .
9	There they made him sing them a song and were enchanted by the noises which came out .
10	Stuart wondered if they made him stand out there , or if he chose to .
11	They made him drink too much .
12	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 .
13	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 .
14	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 .
15	But they made him realize that he was getting across what he wanted to get across , and not a holy-sounding fog of words .
16	They made him strip , put a plastic bag over his head and then poured petrol over him .
17	In other words , they make him feel less helpless in the face of adversity .
18	They make him work . ’
19	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 ) .
20	They make him look fat .
21	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 .
22	He looked suspicious at first , and so did the Japanese waiters as they helped him pull his tuba case through the very narrow doorway .
23	They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand .
24	I was surprised they let him do that .
25	However , their nine-year-old son , Justin , did n't want to conform to his parents minimalist style , so they let him choose his own furniture from Habitat .
26	Dad had submitted to turning out his pocket and being searched before they let him go .
27	Richard Gough is unmatched by any current English central defender and Spurs must still be cursing the day they let him go .
28	He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river .
29	When they were satisfied that there was no more to be got they let him go .
30	But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion .