Example sentences of "it be [noun] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primitive sound of it stirred something deep inside me as though it were Pan himself , not some Indian labourer , playing those haunting notes on that rude instrument . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's Wilder himself who has got under her skin , ’ Silas commented drily . |
| 3 | It is Morrissey himself who is being warped , twisted and cheated by the media . |
| 4 | Therefore , in history it is not nature and technology which makes human society but it is man himself , who in terms of his already existing ideas and values , makes his own history , as he encounters nature and the problems it poses . |
| 5 | This time , it is God himself who descends from his empyrea . |
| 6 | Second , it is God himself who not only speaks but also hears that ‘ No ’ in the person of the one man who does not deserve to hear it , the righteous one who stands in the place of the unrighteous . |
| 7 | Once again it is Goody himself who points out the counter arguments , although , again , he proceeds to ignore them . |
| 8 | And the only person who can disprove it is Puddephat himself . |
| 9 | 'T IS God Himself who speaks , not I ! |
| 10 | She could n't help thinking that it was Mark himself who was largely responsible for the change . |
| 11 | It was Newton himself , again , who , during his priority dispute with Leibniz , encouraged the notion that the conclusions presented in a classical geometrical garb in the Principia were originally derived by him through his fluxional calculus — one more ‘ fable ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was Morse himself , too , who at 8.30 p.m. had called a halt to everything . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But it was Monty himself who made the final decision . |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was Taylor himself who slammed home the spot-kick . |
| 22 | It was Charles himself , in his last , disastrous agreement with the Scots , who proposed , however insincerely , the temporary replacement of episcopacy by Presbyterianism as the State religion . |
| 23 | It was Charles himself , reviving the practice of Christian Roman emperors , who arranged for the annual commemoration of his " nativity in this world on 13 June " at a number of ecclesiastical centres . |
| 24 | It was Franco himself who took Maidstone home . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ It was Nate himself who had the meetings fixed up , and he would n't want them changed . ’ |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | 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 . |