Example sentences of "had make him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly half a century of debauchery had made him immune to such mundane feelings . |
| 2 | The world No. 5 from the United States claimed jet-lag had made him tired . |
| 3 | Both Albert Cavalcanti , the onetime head of the GPO Film Unit whose Brazilian origins had made him unacceptable as a civil servant , and Watt joined the tight group of filmmakers Balcon had gathered round him at Ealing . |
| 4 | He wondered how he had found sufficient courage to ask her to the Edwardian Ball , and then remembered that it was her air of calm dignity which had made him anxious to take her to impress his parents . |
| 5 | Yet when I placed the first hot pad on to the boy 's twisted left leg he seemed not to feel any pain ; I supposed the pain of the spasms had made him impervious to a lesser pain . |
| 6 | Horbury was on drugs for high-blood pressure which had made him impotent and claims his wife admitted adultery , Mr Rees said . |
| 7 | The thought of being there had made him fearful then . |
| 8 | Until now he had never had to court the approval of the political elite , because his monopoly of legitimacy had made him irreplaceable . |
| 9 | It was n't congenital stupidity that had made him susceptible to human jurisdiction , it was anguish . |
| 10 | As a young man , he had been the victim of an ill-starred passion ; the experience had made him misanthropic , and now he lived alone with his parrot . |
| 11 | He was taller than Huy , and labour had made him sinewy ; but he was older , and his guard had dropped . |
| 12 | Those pipes banging like that had made him nervous . |
| 13 | Fleischmann said that one of the referees had said that it was nonsense and that the reaction of this referee had made him nervous about the validity of their experiment . |
| 14 | The gifts had become a pressure , an embarrassment , and her refusal to accept them had made him manipulative . |
| 15 | She had made him stupid , and mocked him , and his old assumptions about her docility had blinded him . |
| 16 | He returned shortly telling me to hang on , it would n't be for long ; and the shock had made him breathless too , I noticed . |
| 17 | His ugliness set him apart ; his ugliness had made him vain . |
| 18 | He was an honest merchant whose skills , and those of others , including thank God the British Nan , had made him rich enough to slake any whim to satiety . |
| 19 | Who 's trying to swindle you this time ? ’ he asked smiling wryly — his job had made him cynical . |
| 20 | Sien had made him strong and potent again . |
| 21 | Over the years she had grown to love him in a familiar , comfortable sort of way , though of late a change in temperament had made him difficult . |
| 22 | All peasants believed that Odin fled to Møn after the coming of Christianity had made him homeless . |
| 23 | Eleanor 's stories had made him jealous ; his wife 's effusions angered him . |
| 24 | For a moment it had made him inclined to doubt the authenticity of the whole thing . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In Peter 's case , the whole sad business with Julian had made him jumpy to say the least . |
| 27 | All his life he had been afraid to ask about his back , and his terrible fear had made him ill . |
| 28 | He had been frightened somewhere in a tight locked-up place inside him because it seemed impossible that they would land safely , and the final swaying descent had made him ill . |
| 29 | Fatigue had made him slothful , and now he 'd let his enemies get dangerously close . |
| 30 | Having the hounds from Six on his trail had made him wary — perhaps especially so around his only child . |