Example sentences of "he be [noun] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was turning into a porky little Buddha , but compared to everyone else in the room he was life itself , vibrant , irreverent and laughing . |
| 2 | She was just someone vaguely in the background of his life to whom he was courtesy itself when they did encounter each other . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was compassion itself . |
| 5 | He was capability itself . |
| 6 | With the baby , he was gentleness itself , playing with him and caring for him with true devotion . |
| 7 | But from the start Eva had insisted he was talent itself , that he was beautiful and God had blown into his cock . |
| 8 | On the other hand he was kindness itself to Andrew 's mother-in-law . |