Example sentences of "have been [noun] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | James has been kindness itself all day . |
| 2 | When he 'd appeared with her breakfast Penry Vaughan had been reasonably friendly — and in the middle of the night he 'd been kindness itself after her nightmare . |
| 3 | In theory the task should have been simplicity itself . |
| 4 | If she and Tom had been two men he would have been discretion itself , she thought . |
| 5 | Ever since they had known one another , Otto had been kindness itself to Jean-Claude . |
| 6 | The ‘ man from the ministry ’ who had taken her statement about the crash and their escape had been kindness itself , but the effects had begun to creep up on her . |
| 7 | But as soon as I begin to be nice to him , a sort of self-satisfaction seems to creep into his voice and his manner ( very discreet , he 's been humility itself all day , no reproach about last night , of course ) and I begin to want to goad and slap him again . |