Example sentences of "[vb pp] he [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sympathetic letter had reminded him he was grieving . |
| 2 | She had reminded him he would have to speak to a certain young man in the Blue Boar this evening . |
| 3 | While his genuine care for the parties in the case may have won him their respect , another contributor to this was his respect for them which is demonstrated through his sense of perception and realism . |
| 4 | That maturity has won him his first TV starring role in ITV 's new £2 million , three-part drama serial The Blackheath Poisonings which starts on Monday . |
| 5 | And his own man in Atlanta , where his straight talking and his independence had won him his next posting . |
| 6 | Despite the quality of mind which had won him his first-class honours degree and led him to a study of modern philosophical and psychological theory , he rode like a conqueror over the rules of logic and morality . |
| 7 | It was this willingness , free from any sense of banality , to dress traditional teaching in modern cliché , which had won him his bishopric . |
| 8 | In fact , ‘ Damnation Derek ’ is a Christian who believes in ‘ Witnessing ’ and it is this simple , even commendable desire to tell others about God and all things Christian that has earned him his nickname ( 'Damnation' is n't his real name — in case you thought he had very unloving parents ! ) and which has made him a Playground Health Hazard . |
| 9 | In fact Bowe , the giggling assassin from Mike Tyson 's hometown of Brownsville , has stopped all but four opponents in an unbeaten 31-fight career that has earned him his right to challenge Evander Holyfield for the world heavyweight title here on Friday . |
| 10 | Once asked many years ago by a visiting American Congresswoman what it was like having a woman leader , Grunte had replied that it was like being at home all day , a bon mot that had earned him his place in ‘ Sayings of the Week ’ . |
| 11 | By being publicly mourned he who was anonymous becomes blatantly famous . |
| 12 | Mr Barre 's brutality has made him plenty of enemies , and recently he has lost his knack for balancing the clans . |
| 13 | But he was starting to lose track of the things that had made him what he was as well . |
| 14 | They who , through the accident of his birth here , had made him what he was — kwai , a hired knife , a killer . |
| 15 | More perceptively , Lloyd Shearer in Parade wrote , ‘ With his short stature , hook nose , beady eyes , unkempt hair , he looks like a loser , and it is precisely because of that loser image that the younger generation have made him their winner . ’ |
| 16 | They had made him their leader and Nuadu , cynical and bitter against his own kind , had thought that for all he was a base-born prince , still he had a Court of a kind and subjects of a sort . |
| 17 | He might have done so , she reflected bitterly , had not madness made him its own monument first . |
| 18 | And , after all , The Last Days of Dolwyn had made him something of a film star . |
| 19 | My father has made him my responsibility . |
| 20 | She had made him his favourite bottom pie and onions for supper that evening when he came in from the fishing , and he had gone back down to Mother Russell 's after , for a few ales . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've seen him myself , or else hearing about it has put me in a special state of mind , and all the other factors have come up right , atmospheric conditions , combinations of light and dark , what you like , and made me create what I believed I was seeing . |
| 22 | ‘ I have n't seen him myself for about a year , ’ she said quietly . |
| 23 | Her heart beat crazily within her as she recalled that the last time she 'd seen him she had hit him with all her might — and from the look of fury on his face he was not easily going to forgive her ! |
| 24 | Still have n't seen him I wan na give it to him . |
| 25 | When Sandison had last seen him he had been a sad figure , a man approaching old age , tired , dishevelled and drunk . |
| 26 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 27 | You 've seen him He 's the guy with the freckly yankee-doodle face and the hint of comic spindliness in his floppy-limbed frame . |
| 28 | Turned out the last time the staff had seen him he was a student here and he 'd made such an arsehole of himself they 'd sworn they 'd never let him back in ! |
| 29 | You should have seen him he climbed on top of a box last night to get to the telly . |
| 30 | but he , he , I mean we 've not seen him he 's been away four years , I know he 's been coming home first , for holidays , visit , but he 's not been at home because , well we moved into that house , if you remember we moved |