Example sentences of "was [noun] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | And also , remember , the firms , which as I say , were dying on their feet in any case , and I me , I did quote the Colchester Lathe because I felt so personally about that cos it was Colchester itself they have actually moved their division up to Leicester itself . |
| 2 | For that matter , she might not have been far out in thinking him impudent ; his manner was innocence itself , his deference if anything delicately overdone , as though he were ready to come down off his high horse the moment she came down off hers , and did n't anticipate that the descent need be long delayed . |
| 3 | He was capability itself . |
| 4 | But from the start Eva had insisted he was talent itself , that he was beautiful and God had blown into his cock . |
| 5 | Her father was kindness itself , but he was the sort of man who gave little credit to anyone who had fallen from grace . |
| 6 | On the other hand he was kindness itself to Andrew 's mother-in-law . |
| 7 | She reassured me , as I was very frightened , and was kindness itself . |
| 8 | She was charm itself . |
| 9 | She had once thought of herself as unique , had been encouraged ( in theory at least ) by her education and by her reading to believe in the individual self , the individual soul , but as she grew older she increasingly questioned these concepts : seeing people perhaps more as flickering impermanent points of light irradiating stretches , intersections , threads , of a vast web , a vast network , which was humanity itself : a web of which much remained dark , apparently but not necessarily unpeopled : peopled by the dark , the unlit , the dim spirits , as yet unknown , the past and the future , the dead , the unborn : and herself , and Brian , and Liz , and Charles , and Esther , and Teddy Lazenby , and Otto and Caroline Werner , and all the rest of them at that bright party , and in these discreet anonymous dark curtained avenues and crescents were but chance and fitful illuminations , chance meetings , chance and unchosen representatives of the thing itself . |
| 10 | Thus one might , said Dionysius , say that God was ‘ good ’ but it was necessary to qualify this in the same breath : he was Goodness itself but he was not ‘ good ’ in the limited way that human beings understood this quality . |
| 11 | Bertha , of course , never went anywhere , but Rabbi Moishe sometimes wished his daughter-in-law had a little more — humanity ? no , no , he must n't judge — a little more inclination to mix with the other married women ; he respected his daughter-in-law , she was holiness itself , as frum as an angel , and as for housekeeping . |
| 12 | He was compassion itself . |
| 13 | What concerned the radicals was militarization itself , and the corruption of democratic process involved . |
| 14 | With the baby , he was gentleness itself , playing with him and caring for him with true devotion . |
| 15 | It was simplicity itself . |
| 16 | Their theme was simplicity itself : the precentor wished to become a monk ; the bishop wished to retain him in the service of the cathedral . |
| 17 | James 's solution to this problem was simplicity itself . |
| 18 | But Branson 's attitude was simplicity itself . |
| 19 | It was simplicity itself . |
| 20 | She was just someone vaguely in the background of his life to whom he was courtesy itself when they did encounter each other . |
| 21 | Ingard was affability itself . |
| 22 | He was turning into a porky little Buddha , but compared to everyone else in the room he was life itself , vibrant , irreverent and laughing . |
| 23 | The Virgin bent her head to the dove in pictures of the Annunciation , and it pierced her through the ear , bringing her the Word that was life itself , down into her womb ; that was what Rosa wanted , Tommaso 's mouth next to her ear , until she , like the woman with her lover in the doorway , would wriggle and gasp . |
| 24 | It was life itself . |
| 25 | Indeed , had he told me where he went and with whom on the evenings he spent away from the attic , I should have felt less vulnerable : it was secrecy itself I found hostile . |
| 26 | Cyril Causeley , Walter Machin 's editor at Jackson 's , was hospitality itself . |
| 27 | The episode had become part of family lore , as well as suggesting that the best place to be was Trazior itself . |
| 28 | Miss Shields ' act was perfection itself . |
| 29 | That something was language itself . |