Example sentences of "[noun] that set him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was his own formidable talent that set him apart . |
| 2 | He had changed physically but the movement of his body down the carriage for coffee still had that freedom that set him apart from the suited composure of the brief case brigade that filled the train . |
| 3 | Seth rarely talked about the things that set him apart from the rest of mankind . |
| 4 | What does Mr Hattersley know about rights that sets him above the wisdom of the ages ? |
| 5 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 6 | They sent him to proper schools — the first royal child not to have been educated by private tutors — but he was never just another pupil ; he was never allowed to forget the accident of birth that set him apart . |
| 7 | So we share his horror as he observes in himself , experiences almost passively — as if it were happening to someone else — the emergence of the tempting desire to murder Duncan ( ‘ suggestion ’ still had the sense of diabolic temptation ) : There , with amazing speed , and as if parenthetically ( ‘ whose murder yet ’ ) we become privy to the secret that sets him apart from the others on stage , the goal to which all his energies will ultimately be directed . |
| 8 | Bashful Barry believes it was his failure with girls as a schoolboy that set him on the path to fame as a film buff . |
| 9 | Yet Conrad uses these elements , which we may term romantic , in a way that sets him far from stories , seemingly similar , by ( say ) Rider Haggard or Buchan . |
| 10 | He had noticed the eyes of one or two French matrons stray wistfully to the tall , spectacularly handsome figure of his brother , and as the rickshaws bowled on side by side he darted a glance at him and decided it must be his new blond mustache that set him apart . |
| 11 | Despite his appearance , the erstwhile executioner treated the princes with a rough kindliness that set him apart from the other attendants — taking it upon himself to ensure that the food was to their liking and the fire well-tended . |