Example sentences of "himself [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King Hussein had himself undertaken a tour of major European capitals from Jan. 2 in a final attempt to prevent the outbreak of war with Iraq . |
| 2 | The defendants , inter alia , submitted that the owner of confidential information could not restrain its use by a party to whom it had accidentally escaped and who had not himself undertaken the duty of confidentiality . |
| 3 | New Zealand captain Martin Crowe : backed himself to hit Phil Tufnell for a matchsaving four — and lost |
| 4 | I marvel he ever steeled himself to hit hard enough to stun , and to break the branch in the blow , even though it was partly rotted . |
| 5 | JC : Peter , in fact could never ever bring himself to hit Ellen , blind or otherwise . |
| 6 | Rufus , who had n't much appreciation of nature usually , nevertheless found himself gazing in something like wonderment at all the roses , yellow and pink and apricot and dark red , a hedge of white ones , a cascade of peach-red that covered a pergola . |
| 7 | Now , with his head pointing upwards , he found himself gazing at the ridge , as over the sky-line came the silent , moving , red-tinged cumuli . |
| 8 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 9 | Not so the antihero himself paralysed by the disease of hyperconsciousness in abstract Petersburg . |
| 10 | He had himself witnessed the ‘ dissidence of dissent ’ as a child : his father , a stonemason in Hexham , left the local Congregational chapel when the new minister turned out to be an Arminian , and migrated , somewhat illogically for a Calvinist , to the local Wesleyan chapel . |
| 11 | But I recall Lord Darlington opening the discussions by formally welcoming the guests , before going on to outline the strong moral case for a relaxing of various aspects of the Versailles treaty , emphasizing the great suffering he had himself witnessed in Germany . |
| 12 | Tolstoy first published ‘ Anna Karenina ’ in 1918 and based it on an event he himself witnessed . |
| 13 | She had , however , through the months of work , taken a real interest in what he was doing , and he found himself confiding in her more and more . |
| 14 | Raised in extreme poverty he taught himself to paint in the style of Durer , Bosch , Leonardo and other Old Masters . |
| 15 | Gandhi himself refers to Rāma as the all powerful essence whose name is inscribed in the heart . |
| 16 | Offe himself refers to the exhaustion of the potential of the labour movement and explicitly endorses Gorz 's ( 1982 ) Farewell to the Working Class . |
| 17 | On a number of occasions in the novel , the narrator Marcel himself refers to the intellect as a kind of lattice-work , with which we try to capture reality , but through which reality flows and escapes us . |
| 18 | Stirling himself realized that if he was to stand any chance of getting his radical ideas accepted , he had to ‘ sell the proposal ’ to the Commander-in-Chief . |
| 19 | Soon he himself realized that something must be done , and arranged for Gabriel to manage his farm too . |
| 20 | The third referral concerned a chiropractor , a graduate of a European college , who styled himself doctor . |
| 21 | Powerful stuff , which represents the sort of passionate writing that Mr Wright himself goes in for . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the Nazgûl himself goes even more than usual beyond the boundaries of even ‘ romantic ’ humanity : he looks like a man , and carries a sword , but it is a ‘ pale ’ or insubstantial one ; he bursts the Gate not only by Grond but by a projection of fear and dread , ‘ words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone ’ , which work like ‘ searing lightning ’ . |
| 23 | Stevenson himself goes along with this view to a far greater extent than seems appropriate . |
| 24 | John Lyons , for instance , while complaining that ‘ much linguistic theorising is vitiated by the uncritical transference by linguists and philosophers of attitudes which derive from the cultural peculiarities of English and a few other so-called world languages ’ ( 1982 ) , himself goes on to rest part of his view of literacy , implicitly , on exactly such ‘ cultural peculiarities ’ of written English . |
| 25 | When we are in as Mr himself agrees , the worst housing recession probably this this century . |
| 26 | This one was the grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson , who was himself intended to be a lighthouse engineer like his grandfather , his father and his uncle , until circumstances made him an author instead . ) |
| 27 | What specific meanings Dicey himself intended when writing the Law of the Constitution matters little . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Also I had drunken row with Jack , day two , for which neither party could bring himself to apologize and which polluted friendship forever . |
| 30 | Leopold 's tragedy was that of a parent whose cherished child spurns his advice in adolescent rebellion ; but , unlike , for example , Alessandro Scarlatti , another musician father with a son more brilliant than himself , Leopold could never quite bring himself to untie the emotional leashes and allow his own ‘ young eagle whose wings are grown ’ to find his own way in the world . |