Example sentences of "made him [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 2 | His experiences there in grappling with the problems of planning the postwar development of the French economy had made him increasingly convinced that effective economic planning was beyond the capacity of any single state , but would depend upon intense cooperation between states . |
| 3 | Her accusation in front of her family had made him coldly furious , she realised with a jolt . |
| 4 | Vital patterns become distorted and lost in the sort of fragmentation and change with which Eliot 's textual studies in a battery of languages and his reading of works like Cornford 's had made him particularly familiar . |
| 5 | It was also clear that something about the young man made him intensely uncomfortable . |
| 6 | An upbringing designed to carry him through changes of regime and frontier , possible loss of every worldly possession , and , in the event of crisis , protracted stays with distant relatives ensconced wherever the aristocracy was tolerated , from the Polish border to Hyde Park Gate , in short , a good European background , had made him totally self-contained and able with sunny smile and the formal handshake of the gymnase to set almost anybody at their ease , even the flustered Nenna . |
| 7 | His confinement to a wheelchair had made him defensively aware of his reliance upon other people , as well , and Anthony Powell has described him as " at once nervous and dominating " with a manner which " could at times approach the positively tyrannical " . |
| 8 | When I had made him as comfortable as I could — a relative term , since he was in pain with each new spasm — I cut the two blankets into strips , each one two feet or so wide . |
| 9 | body weights , has made him really keen , like , he 's quite tubby , is n't he ? |
| 10 | The front page story had made him very angry . |
| 11 | Has it made him more docile and thus easier to control , or has it destabilised him ? |
| 12 | His lack of humbug about political balance has always made him more honest than all the employees of BBC Current Affairs awaiting with glee the Kinnock years . |
| 13 | He says metering has made him more conscious about the water he uses . |
| 14 | The disappointment of not being selected for Rosemary 's Baby had merely made him more determined to change his life . |
| 15 | Perhaps Ken 's accident had made him more articulate . |
| 16 | His silence and inertia would have only made him more lifelike and I would , at once , have been treated as ‘ one of the girls ’ . |
| 17 | Further , his total avoidance of arianism is held to have made him more acceptable to the catholic Gallo-Romans , than were the other kings of his generation , and to have helped ensure that the Franks were more successful than either the Burgundians or the Visigoths . |
| 18 | She was wise enough to understand , now that her fear was leaving her , that it was Dr Neil 's very real concern which had made him so sharp with her when he had found out who it was he had rescued . |
| 19 | And with an inward smile Dexter realised another reason why Blanche 's flirtation with the inspector had made him so irritable . |
| 20 | Rumours of a social evening at the Hall with the entire village being invited had n't exactly dispelled all worry , since it was his summer parties that had made him so unpopular around the area in the first place . |
| 21 | What on earth had made him so angry all of a sudden ? |
| 22 | Reminded that he would be going back as one of the 10 per cent , ‘ Jacki ’ let go one of the handsome smiles which have made him so popular , but he qualified that by underlining the discomfort he might feel in that situation . |
| 23 | Robert said that ill-feeling between him and his brother had made him so annoyed that he had used a large knife to slash a rubber dinghy which they owned jointly . |
| 24 | His liking for the man made him uncomfortably aware of the similarity in their jobs . |