Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching him now , as he shepherded parents in from the garden for the start of the pageant , listening to his deep , authoritative voice , he seemed , to Robert , more English than he himself could ever be . |
| 2 | What remains indeterminate is whether Jesus was truly convinced that he himself had literally to die , or whether it was sufficient that he appear to die . |
| 3 | The record of de Gaulle 's provisional government was a mixed one , in a sense both more creditable and less creditable than he himself suggested . |
| 4 | He nevertheless insists that the " range of plausible " and " scale of valid " interpretations is constrained by the theory to which he adheres , although argument is admissible and he himself has progressed in understanding within the constraints imposed by the theory ( rejecting the PATH schema in favour of the BALANCE one ) . |
| 5 | It is highly unlikely that he himself travelled to Muscovy and Guinea , as a later epitaph alleged ( though he had an elephant 's head displayed as a curiosity in his house ) , but he was certainly one of the richest and most prominent of overseas merchants in early Tudor London . |
| 6 | Now he is just flattered by the label — ‘ the British Marvin Hagler ’ — which Bob Arum , the American promoter investing that $2 million , has tagged on him ; previously he would have been angry that he himself had not invented it . |
| 7 | Now he is just flattered by the label — ‘ the British Marvin Hagler ’ — which Bob Arum , the American promoter investing that $2 million , has tagged on him ; previously he would have been angry that he himself had not invented it . |
| 8 | He was ashamed that he himself let him . |
| 9 | There he came to know the painters , Mark Gertler , D. G. Bomberg , W. P. Roberts , C. R. W. Nevinson , and ( Sir ) Stanley Spencer [ qq.v. ] , but increasingly found art and poetry incompatible and he himself was drawn towards poems , ten of which were privately printed as a pamphlet , Night and Day , in 1912 . |
| 10 | It is because the villain of this piece is none other than he himself . ’ |
| 11 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 12 | But even if he was more original than he himself claims , he was only producing one of many variations on a Greek scheme . |
| 13 | ( 32 ) It was true that he himself was ignored by the countess as much as she dare ignore him … |
| 14 | Thus where the buyer commits an anticipatory repudiation which the seller fails to accept as terminating the contract , the seller will be liable if he himself subsequently fails to perform the contract . |
| 15 | He had added that his new possession would need ‘ a bit of doing up ’ , but other engineers working at Nigel 's firm seemed almost as fascinated as he himself , and once it arrived on the premises Nigel remarked jokingly , ‘ Not too many lighthouses were made for a couple of years . ’ |