Example sentences of "[verb] him different " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the cool way in which he had always spoken to her she had thought him different from other men . |
| 2 | Burton travelled to observe and communicate , which made him different from most explorers of the day , but he too could be touched by the inexplicable fever of travel : ‘ … some thousand miles up a river with an infinitesimal prospect of returning ! |
| 3 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 4 | One was a big man with a bullet head and a short neck , with shoulders almost as broad as Ben 's ; but he had height with it , being all of six foot tall , which in itself made him different from most other men , for it was only here and there you would see his like . |
| 5 | He knew he was slow-witted ; so many things that were simple for other people quite defeated him , and he was aware that this made him different — he had even heard himself referred to as ‘ not all there ’ . |
| 6 | Something that made him different ? |
| 7 | He intrigued her , there was something about the way he acted , the way he spoke that made him different from all the other vagrants that she had met . |
| 8 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 9 | Alexander sought the advice of numerous doctors and voice trainers who gave him different medicines or voice exercises , but this only brought him temporary relief . |
| 10 | Essentially , what makes the professional cricketer tick , what makes him different even , is a deep-rooted , intense pride in his own performance . |