Example sentences of "[pron] was [noun] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had once thought of herself as unique , had been encouraged ( in theory at least ) by her education and by her reading to believe in the individual self , the individual soul , but as she grew older she increasingly questioned these concepts : seeing people perhaps more as flickering impermanent points of light irradiating stretches , intersections , threads , of a vast web , a vast network , which was humanity itself : a web of which much remained dark , apparently but not necessarily unpeopled : peopled by the dark , the unlit , the dim spirits , as yet unknown , the past and the future , the dead , the unborn : and herself , and Brian , and Liz , and Charles , and Esther , and Teddy Lazenby , and Otto and Caroline Werner , and all the rest of them at that bright party , and in these discreet anonymous dark curtained avenues and crescents were but chance and fitful illuminations , chance meetings , chance and unchosen representatives of the thing itself . |
| 2 | She was charm itself . |
| 3 | Bertha , of course , never went anywhere , but Rabbi Moishe sometimes wished his daughter-in-law had a little more — humanity ? no , no , he must n't judge — a little more inclination to mix with the other married women ; he respected his daughter-in-law , she was holiness itself , as frum as an angel , and as for housekeeping . |
| 4 | That something was language itself . |
| 5 | And also , remember , the firms , which as I say , were dying on their feet in any case , and I me , I did quote the Colchester Lathe because I felt so personally about that cos it was Colchester itself they have actually moved their division up to Leicester itself . |
| 6 | It was life itself . |
| 7 | It was simplicity itself . |
| 8 | It was simplicity itself . |
| 9 | Indeed , had he told me where he went and with whom on the evenings he spent away from the attic , I should have felt less vulnerable : it was secrecy itself I found hostile . |
| 10 | He was turning into a porky little Buddha , but compared to everyone else in the room he was life itself , vibrant , irreverent and laughing . |
| 11 | She was just someone vaguely in the background of his life to whom he was courtesy itself when they did encounter each other . |
| 12 | Thus one might , said Dionysius , say that God was ‘ good ’ but it was necessary to qualify this in the same breath : he was Goodness itself but he was not ‘ good ’ in the limited way that human beings understood this quality . |
| 13 | He was compassion itself . |
| 14 | He was capability itself . |
| 15 | With the baby , he was gentleness itself , playing with him and caring for him with true devotion . |
| 16 | But from the start Eva had insisted he was talent itself , that he was beautiful and God had blown into his cock . |
| 17 | On the other hand he was kindness itself to Andrew 's mother-in-law . |