Example sentences of "he had prove " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gubbins was educated at Battersea Polytechnic , but was taken away at sixteen when the headmaster told his mother that educating him had proved a hopeless task . |
| 2 | Bush had vetoed a total of 23 bills , and all 11 attempts by Congress to override him had proved unsuccessful . |
| 3 | By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry . |
| 4 | Again he had to prove himself , this time to 135 tough young teenagers aged fourteen and fifteen who were not impressed by his title . |
| 5 | But he denied the organisation was being heavy-handed in making an example of the teenagers , saying he had to prove a point , although the Alliance does not want them imprisoned . |
| 6 | It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman . |
| 7 | He had proved that he had not , after all , thrown away his how-to-train manual , despite the fact that only Rambo 's Hall has won for him this season . |
| 8 | Norman Wisdom was snapped by up Rank after he had proved what he could do on TV , and the cosy cop series Dixon of Dock Green ( 1955–76 ) was clearly a lineal descendant of Ealing 's The Blue Lamp . |
| 9 | Her father , when he came up before the Farnham Commission , had proved extraordinarily resilient , but he had still caved in , and then he had proved richly satisfying . |
| 10 | Even the son had had a tang to him , although he had proved surprisingly hard to digest at the end . |
| 11 | But he felt he had proved himself a man , at twenty-three , and , as the returning warrior , had a belief that there would be no parental opposition . |
| 12 | He had proved himself in battle ; he had been of service . |
| 13 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 14 | He had proved that he could maintain his force in the desert over a considerable length of time , which by air supply could easily be extended . |
| 15 | He had proved during a thorough re-analysis of old observations that the coldest decades in recent history ; the ‘ Little Ice Age ’ of the second half of the 17th century , coincided ( if that is the right word ) with an interval when the Sun was remarkably free from sunspots . |
| 16 | Descartes refused to be sure even of the reality of the external universe until he had proved a priori to his own satisfaction that he was not dreaming it . |
| 17 | A small man whose charm belied his determination , he had proved his abilities in action in France , and — what was probably more important at this stage of the commandos ' ill-fortunes — he knew his way around the Whitehall ministries . |
| 18 | Nonetheless , he had proved he could stay up with the leaders , and he went to South Africa in March in good spirits . |
| 19 | He had proved an enthusiastic pupil when learning the complicated tedious job of a signalman . |
| 20 | Gazza did not even come out for the second half — he had proved all he needed to prove to any disbelievers still out there . |
| 21 | Graham still bore the mental scars of his tragedy but he had proved to be an excellent operative and Philpott had no intention of letting him go . |
| 22 | Bought as a second pony after she had grown out of Buttons , he had proved himself such a marvellous jumper and such a resolute galloper , Artemis could n't possibly imagine life without him . |
| 23 | Indeed in April he had proved that such reading was an art : the Sitwells had organized an evening for the Free French in the Aeolian Hall , and in front of the Queen he gave a memorable and dramatic performance of " What the Thunder Said " . |
| 24 | He had proved useful in the woodland , being better accustomed to thick woods than any of the others . |
| 25 | He had proved remarkably ( to her , touchingly ) sensitive about their temporary absence . |
| 26 | In 1915 and ‘ 16 he had proved he had n't lost his old touch , and so died in bed at a great age , garnished with colourful honours , many of them from grateful countries whose soldiers he had n't got killed even on purpose . |
| 27 | A jury might not accept that he had proved his case , but they would agree there was a case to answer . |
| 28 | She was about to tell him that was his own stupid fault and that she was n't here to wait on him — particularly since he had proved to be so inhospitable . |
| 29 | Maybe he had proved to himself that he had recovered his nerve but he had had to hold on very tight at that moment when she had broken . |
| 30 | Instead , he had proved himself to be capable of great human emotion . |