Example sentences of "himself a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Georgia Griffiths father Peter , himself a barrister and court recorder left the court knowing her dreams of becoming a solicitor are finished . |
| 2 | Vincentius had won himself a name as a reputable physician . |
| 3 | Mr Fox planned to build himself a home very near the village , of which he had plans ready , but unfortunately he passed away before it was built . |
| 4 | I believe that Stalin was paranoid about other people in the Soviet Union rising up and overthrowing him , so by bumping off Kirov and blaming on them , he effectively gave himself a licence to go out and kill all other them as revenge . |
| 5 | EDDIE Murphy has declared himself a servant of God . |
| 6 | The Prince , then nearly 33 , had already made himself a hostage to fortune by declaring that 30 was a suitable age to settle down . |
| 7 | Curricular novelties continued : the Headmaster , himself a Classicist , reported on Speech Day : we have made the experiment of allowing boys in the 5th to choose their own work for two hours a week , with the interesting result that a dozen boys have chosen to do Greek . " |
| 8 | He told students at Edinburgh University that no changes were planned but allowed himself a get-out clause by stressing that he would not be tied to any position until the Government 's conclusions on the industry had been agreed . |
| 9 | The father in one family , himself a compositor with both a son and daughter following his trade , was described as " a first-class workman , clever , thoughtful and well-read … he is in the Trade Union " and also attended Labour Party meetings ( indicating incidentally that it was not necessarily a sign of disaffection from the union for a comp to send his daughter to the trade ) . |
| 10 | He had got himself a bar cloth and a bunch of paperclips and looked like he meant business . |
| 11 | The didactic works which the nobility used to educate their children stressed , in the words of the Burgundian , Ghillebert de Lannoy ( himself a nobleman ) , the obligation to ‘ expose themselves to death for the good of the land ’ , an ideal which many would have been able to read about in the works of classical authors such as Valerius Maximus , Livy and Caesar . |
| 12 | The division of labour in modern Britain is such that these three major segments of social life can be thought of as distinct and virtually autonomous sub-systems , each with its own set of specialized self-perpetuating roles ministers , " politicians " , civil servants , judges , lawyers , policemen , bishops , clergy — all of which are open , at least in theory , to any individual of appropriate age , sex , and education who chooses to make himself a candidate . |
| 13 | The Lord Chancellor ( Viscount Dilhorne ) said that , as he was not himself a candidate for the leadership , if anyone wished to have any private talk he would be available . |
| 14 | Dalglish , himself a master marksman , said : ‘ The way Alan struck that one was just terrific , a real striker 's goal . ’ |
| 15 | In one of his songs he called himself a master of the art of love , good enough to be able to earn his living at it . |
| 16 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyhow , Grandfather had been down to John Adrich 's at the bottom of the hill and he 'd bought himself a grin'stone for sharpening tools . |
| 18 | But , in terms of the tragicomical life of the book , such a reader is himself a fiction , and an empty one . |
| 19 | He was already a person of some eminence in Nonconformist circles , too ; he and his Methodist wife had enjoyed the distinction of being married by John Wesley in 1774 , and by 1799 he was himself a deacon in the General Baptist movement . |
| 20 | Eb permitted himself a half-smile . |
| 21 | General Abakumov , by bitter irony himself a Jew , was shot on the orders of his rival , Lavrenti Beria , in 1951 . |
| 22 | Leonard Woolf , himself a Jew , has said , " I think T. S. Eliot was slightly anti-semitic in the sort of vague way which is not uncommon . |
| 23 | ‘ He believed in the code of loyalty and silence but he could have done himself a favour by letting us know where all the gold was . ’ |
| 24 | Encouraged , Bunny suggested he would be doing himself a favour if he asked Desmond Fairchild to dinner . |
| 25 | Can downbeat Dalglish — ‘ Our position does n't matter at this point ’ — earn himself a half-share of Clough 's record ? |
| 26 | At Chiswick Burlington built himself a villa , modelled on the Villa Rotonda of Palladio , but Pope at Twickenham had a villa too which was also expressive of Palladian principles ( Figs 3a , 3b ) . |
| 27 | Spackman has not always been the darling of the Ibrox crowd , not always been immaculate in his conceptions , in distribution given to moments of near madness and almost always one of the great unsung ; but , against Celtic , Spackman fashioned for himself a night to remember . |
| 28 | ‘ I think you can take it from me , ’ said Rose firmly , ‘ that Mr Didier did not murder Sir Thomas , ’ earning himself a look of gratitude from Auguste . |
| 29 | He could n't call himself a violinist , he says , because , for four years , his fiddle had only three strings , forcing him to virtuosic feats of improvisation . |
| 30 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |