Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [noun] himself who " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't help thinking that it was Mark himself who was largely responsible for the change . |
| 2 | And it was Morse himself who had initiated the arrest of Mr Edward Stratton as he stepped off his plane in New York ; Morse himself who had spoken with the aforementioned Stratton for forty-six minutes , seven seconds — as measured by the recently installed meter in the recently constituted Telephone Room at St Aldate 's . |
| 3 | When the WICBC met to discuss the captaincy for the visit to Australia in 1960–1 , it was Alexander himself who pressed Worrell 's claims , and in due course the announcement was made that Worrell would lead the team . |
| 4 | All the same , constituency party membership rose that year to 265,763 , an increase of well over 10% on 1943.35 With the sudden break-out of the armies from the Normandy bridgehead , it looked as if what Churchill called the ‘ German war ’ was about to come to its conclusion ; and , as we have seen , in October 1944 , when the Commons once more renewed the electoral truce for a year , it was Churchill himself who said that this would be the signal for the dissolution of the coalition . |
| 5 | The pope 's letter to Lanfranc is preserved in Eadmer 's Historia Novorum , and , according to Eadmer , it was Lanfranc himself who had sent to Rome to ask for a confirmation of Boniface IV 's privilege . |
| 6 | Seldom in history has a work of fiction had such influence in forming public attitudes and the full fruit of this influence would only be recognized in 1861 : it was Lincoln himself who would refer to the little lady who started the war . |
| 7 | But it was Monty himself who made the final decision . |
| 8 | For a moment she thought it was Scathach himself who came towards her ; her mind was full of the vision from the oak tree , of the young man , identically dressed , bleeding out his life … |
| 9 | But it was Barth himself who really carried this programme through , insisting that even the doctrines of creation and sin must be grounded in christology , that there is no predestination of God apart from Jesus Christ , that on the cross Jesus himself is the one rejected and abandoned by God , and that both judgement and mercy , reprobation and election , must be seen as worked through in him , All these lines must , so to speak , be carried into the centre where they meet in Jesus Christ himself , and be seen as opening out from him rather than as constituting a distinct frame of reference into which he can be subsequently fitted . |
| 10 | It was Taylor himself who slammed home the spot-kick . |
| 11 | It was Franco himself who took Maidstone home . |
| 12 | No one seemed to know what to do next , or what was expected of them , and in the end it was David himself who took control . |
| 13 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 14 | With time running out , another Bob Daynes surge down the right wing earned a corner for 'Mill , and it was Daynes himself who crossed the ball to pick out brother Peter who was unmarked in the penalty area to score with a thumping header into the roof of the net . |
| 15 | ‘ It was Nate himself who had the meetings fixed up , and he would n't want them changed . ’ |
| 16 | The violent metaphors which formerly had been freely used were absent , and the letter contained a suggestion that it was Anselm himself who had been going too far : |
| 17 | Critics of Guerreiro 's dismissal , however , stated that this decision was for foreign consumption , and pointed out that it was Collor himself who had delayed the boundary decision by six months in order to give FUNAI more time to study the region . |
| 18 | And given that it was Godolphin himself who supplied these items — most were simply terrestrial trivia , revered in the Dominions because of their place of origin — and given that he would not cease to do so as long as the fever of collection was upon him and he could exchange such items for artifacts from the Imajica , Peccable 's business would flourish . |
| 19 | Indeed , it was Beveridge himself who claimed in the midst of the war that ‘ the most general effect of war is to make he common people more important ’ . |
| 20 | In his view , Baker and the LSG loyally pursued the president 's agenda and it was Reagan himself who decided whether to compromise , and when : ‘ It was Reagan , and Reagan alone , who decided that four fifths of a loaf , especially a loaf that was perhaps too large to begin with , was better than no loaf . ’ |
| 21 | When they finally sat down to the meal it was Moran himself who brought McQuaid back into the day . |