Example sentences of "that made him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just in time , Dick developed a viral nasty that made him lethargic . |
| 2 | It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders . |
| 3 | On the one hand , he was loved for his own great ability , his loyalty to his teams , his concern for youngsters and all the other good work he did off the pitch , and for his warm , relaxed character that made him friends in many places . |
| 4 | He had the sort of sensitive nose that made him instantly burst into tears if it got the slightest knock . |
| 5 | It was only the sun , flashing briefly on her bleached hair , that made him shade his eyes and look again in that direction . |
| 6 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 7 | She often did things and said things that made him feel loved . |
| 8 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 9 | Nathan thought bitterly about how it was only his abnormality that made him suitable for Leila 's purposes . |
| 10 | He sensed the imminence of some kind of public display and that made him very nervous indeed . |
| 11 | He employed the wry , self-deprecation that made him a refreshing presence on the campaign trail . |
| 12 | No , success came because Mr Major discovered what he believed , and that made him feel free at last . |
| 13 | Suddenly he remembered something that made him jump . |
| 14 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 15 | In the centre of the road was a six-foot colour portrait of President Assad , an artist 's impression of the Syrian leader in air force uniform that made him look like an elderly Battle of Britain pilot , eyes narrowed against the sun , gaze fixed on the heavens . |
| 16 | But then , it was not his good looks that made him famous . |
| 17 | He did not look up until he was right down in the station ; and it was a sound that made him look up . |
| 18 | But she did not wake and for a moment Henry was flooded by helpless rage , a feeling that made him want to run to the bedside table , snatch up Elinor 's nail scissors and twist them into her neck , this way and that , gouging out blood and veins . |
| 19 | He remembered old dad VATman up at Hoomey 's sitting by the fire and how he had wanted to go there , and that made him think of a good name : Lucky Fireside … no , Firelight , Lucky Firelight . |
| 20 | The same applied to her cousin Bean but Jazz , if he had never ridden before , had a natural balance that made him look positively accomplished beside the other two . |
| 21 | But it was the driver that made him halt abruptly . |
| 22 | Lamarck is presented to us as a man misunderstood , misrepresented , undeservedly neglected and as the subject of calumnies that made him appear as ‘ the enemy of religion and teleology , even as a mechanistic materialist ’ . |
| 23 | And it was , after all , his science that made him what he was . |
| 24 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 25 | ‘ And then they painted the walls of his office with a chemical that made him lose his mind , ’ she was saying to her brother Phil , who was sitting next to her . |
| 26 | But he looked up all the same and saw the bike pass by , the rider wearing an unfamiliar black helmet and black leathers , the motorbike low-slung , bulging , making a noise that made him think of someone beating cream in a bowl with a wooden spoon . |
| 27 | He was never going to be Pavarotti , but there was something about him that made him great . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 . |
| 30 | Often he acted in ways that made him seem like a child demanding to be looked after . |