Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be [prep] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each suspected the other ( each suspected ) of personal , biographical reasons for arguing the case that each , by and large , argued : and the difference between them was in itself odd , as in the great graph of time and place their paths had oddly crossed and oddly coincided . |
| 2 | But is the consciousness of a beautiful object properly conceived as consisting in two distinct things , consciousness and the object , standing in a certain relation ( of the one being directed at the other ) which makes no difference to what each of them is in itself ? |
| 3 | She does fulfil his hopes , in a way ; and the fulfilment of them is in itself a kind of disappointment ; and her name is Rose . |
| 4 | An air of double-dealing and deceit hangs over those negotiations , as if to suggest that the record of them is in itself a distortion . |
| 5 | I felt not only miserable , but strangely scared , as though the pass above me was in itself a terrifying manifestation of dark imaginings , like the entrance gate to the place where the dead wait in limbo . |
| 6 | ‘ A journey over it was in itself an education in railway history . |