Example sentences of "as [pers pn] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | His kin are entrepreneurs , a wandering bourgeoisie : they have known what it is to be strangers in tight corners , as he himself is a stranger in this tight African town . |
| 2 | It was the taste of the stranger — who might at the same time be rooted , as he himself was , in some national life . |
| 3 | As he himself put it , talking about his film , SUBARNAREKHA , ‘ Refugee ? |
| 4 | The underground man 's heart is no more in being idle than in anything else , however much , as he himself puts it , he ‘ wants to want ’ . |
| 5 | Rob Andrew has , as he himself admits , only recently begun to display his Wasps form for England — and this after 26 caps , an English record in the stand-off half position . |
| 6 | Rather , the reason is that , in Formen , Marx was not principally concerned with establishing an evolutionary sequence , as Engels was to do later on , and as he himself briefly attempted in the Preface to a Critique of the Political Economy . |
| 7 | But Lewis 's conception of the book changed as he himself changed , and nothing much more got written until 193 1 . |
| 8 | Occasionally one comes across an odd book that follows some of his recommendations , as he himself did in his plays — Americanisms like ‘ favor ’ for favour and ‘ labor ’ for labour , or confusions between ‘ ca n't ’ or ‘ wo n't ’ and cant or wont , to name only a few . |
| 9 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 10 | Later , Roland noticed , as he himself had his successes , Val said less and less , and when she argued , offered him increasingly his own ideas , sometimes the reverse side of the knitting , but essentially his . |
| 11 | Yet , as he himself admitted , these conscious efforts to conduct the career of popular novelist in a business-like manner were never entirely happy : |
| 12 | Also the subject of slugs , he felt , was not one which made an easy stepping-stone to such delicate matters as he himself had in mind . |
| 13 | I should like , in particular , to explain that if , as he himself desires , the size of the Cabinet is to be restricted [ it had twenty members , more than twice the number in Churchill 's War Cabinet , which oscillated between five and nine ] , the Committee structure affords a useful means of preserving the collective responsibility of Ministers as a whole . |
| 14 | He is so afraid of being controlled himself ( being done to as he himself does ) that he continues to control others to avoid becoming a victim himself and so having to face humiliation . |
| 15 | Though , as he himself realised , with a hypochondriacal mother , a sister who committed suicide , an uncle who lived ‘ like King Ludwig II of Bavaria ’ and a paranoid cousin who died in an asylum , perhaps that was not surprising . |
| 16 | Since our history books are still largely written from the liberal side we are amazed to find Wordsworth on the side of the aristocracy and against the rising hopes of the people ; as he himself put it : ‘ I can not but be of opinion that the feudal power yet surviving in England is eminently serviceable in counteracting the popular tendency to reform . ’ |
| 17 | It was a firm belief of the poet that his way of life was right for him , and that his poems should arise naturally from it ; as he himself said : ‘ I speak of what I know . ’ |
| 18 | He sees too that the other should from the first have known better , as he himself should ( he has come to understand that in retrospect ) , and therefore judges that they both made not only an unlucky but a bad choice . |
| 19 | Brezhnev expected everyone to take his cut at home and abroad ( as he himself had done ) . |
| 20 | He would have defended her with lawyers against any attempt of her husband 's to get her back , but there was none ; perhaps , as he himself had barked out in jest , Arkwright had got himself a mistress . |
| 21 | Zacchaeus was a tax-collector and was very unpopular with the Jews , not only because he worked for the Romans but also because he was very rich through cheating people , as he himself admitted ( Luke 19:8 ) . |
| 22 | He had added that his new possession would need ‘ a bit of doing up ’ , but other engineers working at Nigel 's firm seemed almost as fascinated as he himself , and once it arrived on the premises Nigel remarked jokingly , ‘ Not too many lighthouses were made for a couple of years . ’ |
| 23 | Socrates is a teacher , but his function as he himself describes it is to uncover in the minds of those he teaches what they really know already , but have simply failed to recognise or make explicit . |
| 24 | As he himself said , it would be pointless to study such peoples with a questionnaire , since they do not write , and , while he certainly gained a great deal of essential information from conversation and discussion , it would have been quite futile to try to conduct any kind of interview until he had gained their trust and confidence , and until he had some idea of what kinds of questions he should be asking . |
| 25 | He was completely satisfied with the explanation ; the lawsuit was to be discontinued as far as he himself was concerned , and he had written to Mr. Jennings asking him to withdraw as well . |
| 26 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 27 | As he himself puts it : |
| 28 | But Foucault 's own subsequent work shows that it could not really be a question of choice on these terms , for the simple reason that , as he himself is at pains to point out in The Order of Things , history is itself a discursive practice : while the latter can not be simply equated with the textual , it can not be crudely opposed to it either . |
| 29 | On the contrary , the child imagines that only unworthy female persons have thus sacrificed their genital organ , such persons as have probably been guilty of the same forbidden impulses as he himself . |
| 30 | Even Vernon 's model has fallen foul of the continuing disturbance to existing patterns , as he himself acknowledged ( 1979 ) . |