Example sentences of "himself a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leslie was himself a painter , and thus comments in his own right on his friend 's art , as here on a painting of Hampstead Heath : |
| 2 | Doyle , for instance , thinks to himself a Scottish thought : ‘ Would his grandparents ever have had sexual activity in the parlour ? ’ |
| 3 | It was worth every mile , and somehow the travelling was particularly appropriate , for he is himself a travelling man , at home everywhere and nowhere . |
| 4 | Scott was in fact a poet of considerable skill himself a founding father , no less , of Canada 's emerging poetry movement , and the doyen of poetry in Montreal , which has produced so many excellent poets . |
| 5 | Paul Robeson — himself a belatedly famed son of the Law School — might embody law and song , and F.R. Scott might embody law and poetry , but even he recognised the more profound call of the muse : ‘ poetry first , ’ he had said ‘ and the poetic element all the way through , ’ which in the hurly-burly of the clothing industry , was even less possible . |
| 6 | After a moment he rose slowly , poured himself a whisky , returned to the Chesterfield and took a dismal sip . |
| 7 | Peter produced a bottle of Bacardi , poured himself a large measure , added some coca cola , looked in the fridge , commented gloomily , ‘ No ice , ’ and followed Rodney into the living room . |
| 8 | The annual BW accounts , published last month , reveal that Gorgeous George voted himself a 17 per cent pay rise last year just as his company was plunging to the canvas with debts of £350 million . |
| 9 | Maybe he 'd better go and buy himself a new bike , that 's always a good way to break bits of the human body . |
| 10 | We think back to the antihero of Notes from Underground lamenting that he ca n't even call himself a lazy man , and we think sideways to Svidrigailov : ‘ Believe me , if only I were something ; a landowner , say , or a father , a cavalry officer , a photographer , a journalist say — but I 'm nothing , I 've no speciality . ’ |
| 11 | With hindsight one can point to the underground man complaining that if he could manage even to loaf and idle around wholeheartedly he would be able to call himself a lazy man . |
| 12 | This crablike sidling away from all he is and does catches the tune of the achieved , fully formed Stavrogin ; unlike Svidrigailov , who incidentally makes great play with the fact that he 's bored , he would — could — never call himself a debauchee . |
| 13 | But , in terms of the tragicomical life of the book , such a reader is himself a fiction , and an empty one . |
| 14 | As before , Thomson , who has also put out calls for biographical material on other subjects , including S G Brown , signs himself a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , helping establish credibility with editors unaware of the fact that he started collecting original papers in 1972 . |
| 15 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 16 | Now Pound has interested himself a great deal in the order of the Templars , to which Pierre of Castillon belonged . |
| 17 | In his ‘ A Study of English poetry ’ , which ran in The English Review from March to June 1912 , Newbolt refers to Pound as ‘ a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest ’ . |
| 18 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 19 | He was himself a greatly talented teacher , a master of clear explanation and a fine blackboard artist . |
| 20 | Mr Mandela , himself a royal member of the Tembu tribe , had a big hand in organising the event , as the General , a dapper 34-year-old in a double-breasted silk suit , readily recognised in an interview at his office here . |
| 21 | Brian Clough , the Forest manager , said : ‘ His contract was not expiring but he deserved a rise for the contribution he has made over the last 12 months -so he earned himself a new deal . ’ |
| 22 | MIKHAIL GORBACHEV must feel himself a man cursed . |
| 23 | Edward York makes him more of a Friar Larry , Romeo 's dishevelled contemporary , one of the lads who has unaccountably found himself a Franciscan . |
| 24 | When Hun Sen , himself a former Khmer Rouge commander who fled to Vietnam , gives his list of eight Khmer Rouge leaders whom he absolutely refuses to include in any political deal , it is the same people who studied together in Paris in the 1950s , fought in the jungles from 1967 , captured Phnom Penh in 1975 , led the government of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 , and fled to Thailand in 1979 after the Vietnamese invasion . |
| 25 | THE GASH sustained by Carroll House after he proved himself a cut above the rest of Europe in Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe looked a lot less serious than had been feared when Britain 's new equine hero was examined on his return to Newmarket yesterday , writes John Karter . |
| 26 | Mr Berecz said he still considered himself a member of the old party and refused to recognise the new one — despite voting for its establishment — but did not rule out the possibility of seeking admission to it . |
| 27 | General Abakumov , by bitter irony himself a Jew , was shot on the orders of his rival , Lavrenti Beria , in 1951 . |
| 28 | Henry Cecil 's colt proved himself a thorough stayer when running on strongly at the end of the 1 ¾ miles of the St Leger on rain-softened ground at Ayr , but the Champion is run over half a mile less . |
| 29 | Golf : Feherty to spin himself a cocoon |
| 30 | In actuality it was the poorer peasants who grumbled louder and suffered more from taxation , as Yakovlev was to discover for himself a year later in Tambov guberniia . |