Example sentences of "himself a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Welsh leader of the parliamentary Labour Party , Cledwyn Hughes , himself a ‘ Lib-Lab ’ figure of noted moderation and an admirer of Lloyd George , was an important go-between . |
| 32 | Sir Alec Cairncross , himself a distinguished practitioner of the Keynesian policies of the 1950s and 1960s , ruefully recalled in 1981 that the standing of economists , which was at its peak just after the war , was now back ‘ at its pre-war low ’ . |
| 33 | It so happened that the UN Secretary-General , Perez de Cuellar , was himself a Peruvian . |
| 34 | As the children grew , Michael felt himself a backward boy . |
| 35 | He found that the rooms next door were occupied by Selwyn Lloyd , whom he discovered to be like himself a strong Liberal and with whom he was therefore soon friends . |
| 36 | Because he is not going for discovery or new connection or progression , but only to repeat upon himself a known reaction . |
| 37 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 38 | He took off his shoes , climbed into a chair , rolled a cigarette and poured himself a coffee . |
| 39 | ( They were eventually to get another dog — a very lively golden retriever , but before that Warnie had bought himself a boat . ) |
| 40 | In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him . |
| 41 | It might have been himself a year ago . |
| 42 | By PETER STANFORD is right in maintaining ( Weekend Guardian , November 4 ) that Graham Greene is not alone in calling himself a ‘ Catholic agnostic ’ . |
| 43 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 44 | ONE Stalkinghorse cantered to the starting gate yesterday ; though , in the most congenial of mixed metaphors , Sir Anthony Meyer prefers to call himself a ‘ burnt offering . ’ |
| 45 | ONE Stalkinghorse cantered to the starting gate yesterday ; though , in the most congenial of mixed metaphors , Sir Anthony Meyer prefers to call himself a ‘ burnt offering . ’ |
| 46 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |
| 47 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |
| 48 | Later the reigning champion , Paul Carter , beat the second-seeded former champion , Phil Kenyon , 10-8 , 9-7 , 9-1 to earn himself a semi-final today with another former champion , Bryan Beeson , whose magnificent recovery overcome the England international Chris Walker 8-10 , 8-10 , 9-5 , 9-0 , 9-7 . |
| 49 | He might also have considered himself a very lucky man , as an actor of limited range who made his screen debut in the classic High Noon ( 1952 ) , playing the harmonica-playing member of the gang out to kill Gary Cooper . |
| 50 | It appears that although the initial protest was by ethnic Hungarians seeking to protect Pastor Tokes , himself a Hungarian , Romanians were quick to join the demonstrations . |
| 51 | Mr Havel , himself a victim of the secret police , has spoken frequently of the never-ending threat of a house search , the knowledge that every visitor was photographed and every conversation bugged by the Communist regime . |
| 52 | Except that Eupolis , our narrator and celebrator of these blisses , is himself a cynic . |
| 53 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |
| 54 | He might even allow himself a wry laugh when he considers how the West has come to excoriate Ceausescu today , after all those years when they applauded his ‘ daring ’ dissent from Warsaw Pact orthodoxy , and acting as a thorn in the Kremlin 's body politic . |
| 55 | Howarth , a fellow student of Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies ( who wrote the Trumpet Sonata , Op.1 , for him ) in Manchester in the 1950s , is himself a trumpet player as well as a specialist conductor of contemporary music . |
| 56 | It was the latter which so struck Henry Detterding , the Director General of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company , who resolved to build himself a ‘ Butterfly ’ house and commissioned Maufe . |
| 57 | John McLeish , himself a forceful character , felt as if he had been put through a wringer . |
| 58 | Ten minutes later he had calmed down sufficiently to make himself a cup of coffee and write himself a note to check Angela Morgan 's financial status . |
| 59 | Ten minutes later he had calmed down sufficiently to make himself a cup of coffee and write himself a note to check Angela Morgan 's financial status . |
| 60 | He poured himself a cup of tea and drank it , selfconsciously , very aware of her sitting tensely beside him . |