Example sentences of "he [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merymose 's story had made him want to lose himself . |
| 2 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 3 | Anxiety makes him want to pee . |
| 4 | The feel of her body close to his in the carriage made him want to hold her , and he was tempted to cover her attractive though work-worn hand with his . |
| 5 | Her scarlet and green plaid outfit made him want to avert his eyes . |
| 6 | This , surely , would inflame Harry and make him want to make love to her . |
| 7 | Even thinking about their blotched yellow and black skins and their squidgy , floury middles made him want to throw up . |
| 8 | He felt inspected , plumbed , and like a moth in front of some anti-lighthouse , casting a shadow-beam , making him want to pull back , fly away from the intensity of those black , searching eyes . |
| 9 | Naught 's happened as 'ud make him want to help any white folk . ’ |
| 10 | A terrible , furious , impotent anger filled him , making him want to strike out , to shout and scream . |
| 11 | And again there was that sickly sweet stench of cooked flesh which clogged his nostrils and made him want to vomit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What he saw there , lying on top of them , made him want to cry out . |
| 14 | What had Julius seen in the nineteen-year-old girl she had been five years ago that had made him want to grab her and marry her , without even really knowing her ? |
| 15 | The powerful bike between his thighs , the beautiful morning and the prospect of a full week 's work ahead , all made him want to burst with joy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's done more , seen more , to make him want to toss it all in than almost anybody his age . |
| 18 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 19 | It made him laugh to see her standing there , shaking her fist at the departing van . |
| 20 | The nearest YMCA centre is in Ripon and Mr King said it was an article in The Northern Echo which first made him consider establishing a YMCA home in Darlington . |
| 21 | The nearest YMCA centre is in Ripon and Mr King said it was an article in The Northern Echo which first made him consider establishing a YMCA home in Darlington . |
| 22 | Make him send to find them . ’ |
| 23 | His long bushy eyebrows , mingling with his coarse black hairline , made him appear to have no forehead at all . |
| 24 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 25 | She often did things and said things that made him feel loved . |
| 26 | Mick made him feel rested : his brain did n't churn and ask questions when he was with Mick . |
| 27 | But what made him choose to devote himself to mathematics was his finding in 1795 of the criterion for a regular n-gon to be constructible using only compass and straightedge . |
| 28 | It made him shudder to think of it now , hardened as he was . |
| 29 | Several times I saw him look to see how many pages more he had to read . |
| 30 | The insecurity he feels , knowing that Banquo 's children are prophesied to become the lineal kings of Scotland , makes him plan to kill Banquo . |