Example sentences of "him to make [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to persuade him to make a real effort to give up smoking — he may put on a bit of weight but he can tackle that later — and to eat frequent snacks throughout the day instead of two or three heavy meals . |
| 2 | In one instance , it was believed in the family that one sister had visited their father during his final illness and had persuaded him to make a new will in her favour , directing his hand as he signed it . |
| 3 | But it is also important to remember that the object of the 1790 visit was really Switzerland , traditionally the land of liberty ; Wordsworth never retracted his belief in the ideals of Switzerland , which helps to explain why , when France threatened Swiss independence in the late 1790s , it was necessary for him to make a decisive choice . |
| 4 | We do n't believe he was infectious before May 21 and we expect him to make a complete recovery . |
| 5 | Similarly circumspect , George Stephen granted Clarkson priority in time but underlined how Wilberforce 's prominence enabled him to make a public issue of the slave trade in a way Clarkson could never have done . |
| 6 | Philip Giles fell more than thirty feet onto a hillside while on holdiay in California but doctors expect him to make a full recovery . |
| 7 | Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style . |
| 8 | But those who expected him to make a significant impact on the British championship were soon to be disappointed . |
| 9 | Here the staccato ranges presumably from ‘ snow ’ to ‘ rain ’ but hardly to ‘ hail ’ It is here where , given the speed of Mozart 's writing , the exact character of the staccato was not important enough for him to make a conscious effort at graphic differentiation , and where , as a consequence , dots and strokes have the same meaning . |
| 10 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |
| 11 | It is his obsession with figures that leads him to make the crucial economic mistakes that he made . |
| 12 | 1.59 The third ground for defending an application is that the defendant from whom the interim payment is sought is not a person who appears to the court to fall within one of the categories listed in Ord 29 , r11(2) , namely : ( a ) a person who is insured in respect of the plaintiff 's claim ; ( b ) a public authority ; or ( c ) a person whose means and resources are such as to enable him to make the interim payment . |
| 13 | He might decide to cross-examine both of us in an attempt to detect inconsistencies in our replies , or hope for some slip-up on our part which might enable him to make the correct identification . |
| 14 | She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else . |
| 15 | Mr Byron Butler , 52 , the chairman , told him to make the necessary adjustments out of court before proceeding with sentencing in a drink-drive case . |
| 16 | If the hon. Gentleman genuinely thinks that services that are contracted out are of lower quality than those done in house , I invite him to make the short journey between the London boroughs of Lambeth and Wandsworth . |
| 17 | Thomson 's entree to the court of Siam enabled him to make an important record of ceremonials there . |