Example sentences of "[noun pl] that made him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under a massive front-page headline , HUNT FOR DRACULA FIEND ( Star ) , the report indicated that a 13-year-old was able to tell detectives that her attacker ‘ had short dark hair streaked with grey and deep-set eyes that made him ‘ look a bit like Dracula ’ ' . |
| 2 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 3 | But it was n't his deeds that made him a Christian , it was his trust in Jesus Christ . |
| 4 | It was one thing for Jean-Claude to have had the experiences that made him uniquely suited to interpret Alain-Fournier 's novel ; it was quite another for those experiences to have laid the foundations for a creative , personal life . |
| 5 | This seemed to quieten Oliver ; his screams died down into long , big sobs that made him shake all over . |
| 6 | Turning back , his strong face set in harsh lines that made him look older , he instructed coldly , ‘ Not one word of this will be breathed to Mother . |
| 7 | She often did things and said things that made him feel loved . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | She relied a good deal on Lessing , whom she disliked but who had qualities that made him useful to her ; he was able to work out salaries , including those of his cousins in the Hampstead house , the expenses of running the theatre , lighting , heating , cleaning . |
| 10 | It was only that now , having finally admitted that she loved him , that she 'd loved him almost from the moment they 'd met , she was able to admit that it was those very same qualities that made him the man he was . |
| 11 | Often he acted in ways that made him seem like a child demanding to be looked after . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction . |
| 13 | A natural Maestro , born with something in his genes that made him capable of re-inventing the workings of the Reconciliation ? |
| 14 | Every day this week you can collect pictures of the Grand Prix victories that made him king . |
| 15 | The bar of the Skein of Geese was the kind of drinking establishment Harry detested : fiddly little bowls of cashew nuts and olives littering every surface ; an effeminate barman who looked as if he would not know a handpump from a cocktail umbrella ; lighting so subdued a fellow could not see to count his change ; and a tape of Glenn Miller standards that made him positively nostalgic for the reception area 's bastardized Vivaldi . |
| 16 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 17 | He went to her , and told her how much he loved her , and that she was not to heed him ; it was the headaches that made him distracted ; that day he had been almost blind ; Mr Lamprey had suggested spectacles , and perhaps now he could afford them . |
| 18 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |