Example sentences of "[noun] that makes him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's wearing a crisp white shirt that makes him look tanned . |
| 2 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 3 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 4 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 5 | I thought it was really very funny , this long straggly black hair , he looked absolutely miserable , he thought he was now spiritually calm and spiritually sane and he 's got this peculiar thing on his head that makes him look so daft . |
| 6 | You wonder , is it something to do with cerebral palsy that makes him clever or is it just that his mother is musical anyway ? |
| 7 | Maybe it is just the cold air that makes him sound that way . |
| 8 | Yet that sort of worry is the kind of thing that makes him so exciting . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As a team manager , Mr Chapman has been strikingly successful , and he unites with his keen business abilities a winning personality that makes him very popular . |
| 10 | His will to win has become a compulsive passion , a virtue that makes him a figure of loathing in the eyes of opposition fans . |
| 11 | A mechanic when he hits on an idea that makes him some money in a suggestion scheme though the joy is of the same substance but he will not feel the same depth of emotion as Einstein or Dante did . |
| 12 | Even J F Sebastian ( William Sanderson ) , a genetic designer of the replicants , suffers from an unspecified disease that makes him prematurely aged ( the postnuclear elements of the novel are eliminated in the screenplay ) . |
| 13 | ‘ As a politician that makes him unusual , surely . ’ |