Example sentences of "was [noun] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Newton himself , again , who , during his priority dispute with Leibniz , encouraged the notion that the conclusions presented in a classical geometrical garb in the Principia were originally derived by him through his fluxional calculus — one more ‘ fable ’ . |
| 2 | Objectively , he was little more attractive to the Conservatives who were hostile to MacDonaldite mush than was MacDonald himself . |
| 3 | Seldom in history has a work of fiction had such influence in forming public attitudes and the full fruit of this influence would only be recognized in 1861 : it was Lincoln himself who would refer to the little lady who started the war . |
| 4 | And it was Morse himself who had initiated the arrest of Mr Edward Stratton as he stepped off his plane in New York ; Morse himself who had spoken with the aforementioned Stratton for forty-six minutes , seven seconds — as measured by the recently installed meter in the recently constituted Telephone Room at St Aldate 's . |
| 5 | It was Morse himself , too , who at 8.30 p.m. had called a halt to everything . |
| 6 | All the same , constituency party membership rose that year to 265,763 , an increase of well over 10% on 1943.35 With the sudden break-out of the armies from the Normandy bridgehead , it looked as if what Churchill called the ‘ German war ’ was about to come to its conclusion ; and , as we have seen , in October 1944 , when the Commons once more renewed the electoral truce for a year , it was Churchill himself who said that this would be the signal for the dissolution of the coalition . |
| 7 | It was Taylor himself who slammed home the spot-kick . |
| 8 | No one seemed to know what to do next , or what was expected of them , and in the end it was David himself who took control . |
| 9 | But it was Ken himself , with previous experience of keeping only tropical fish , who decided that a pond would be the answer to a particularly uninspiring corner of the site . |
| 10 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 11 | When the WICBC met to discuss the captaincy for the visit to Australia in 1960–1 , it was Alexander himself who pressed Worrell 's claims , and in due course the announcement was made that Worrell would lead the team . |
| 12 | But it was Barth himself who really carried this programme through , insisting that even the doctrines of creation and sin must be grounded in christology , that there is no predestination of God apart from Jesus Christ , that on the cross Jesus himself is the one rejected and abandoned by God , and that both judgement and mercy , reprobation and election , must be seen as worked through in him , All these lines must , so to speak , be carried into the centre where they meet in Jesus Christ himself , and be seen as opening out from him rather than as constituting a distinct frame of reference into which he can be subsequently fitted . |
| 13 | The father of Hercules was Zeus himself and his mother , Alcmene , a mortal queen . |
| 14 | But it was Monty himself who made the final decision . |
| 15 | For a moment she thought it was Scathach himself who came towards her ; her mind was full of the vision from the oak tree , of the young man , identically dressed , bleeding out his life … |
| 16 | Zvi Lipsky , the Burial Society Treasurer , had spent the whole afternoon trying to rid his mind of the annoyance of Arnold Wine 's advertisement in that morning 's Cork Examiner and now there was Wine himself , as bold as brass , sitting up in the front seats if you please , instead of at the back where he should be . |
| 17 | Another thing he did was picture himself and his wife in the drawing room receiving dinner guests . |
| 18 | Was Kingdom himself , perhaps , the source of his unease ? |
| 19 | It was Franco himself who took Maidstone home . |
| 20 | Nor , evidently , was Beccaria himself a towering figure of his time ; in fact , he was unknown when he wrote it , never wrote anything else of note and was an embarrassing failure in personal appearances to evangelise his cause . |
| 21 | With time running out , another Bob Daynes surge down the right wing earned a corner for 'Mill , and it was Daynes himself who crossed the ball to pick out brother Peter who was unmarked in the penalty area to score with a thumping header into the roof of the net . |
| 22 | As was Grimm ; as was Jaq himself . |
| 23 | In his view , Baker and the LSG loyally pursued the president 's agenda and it was Reagan himself who decided whether to compromise , and when : ‘ It was Reagan , and Reagan alone , who decided that four fifths of a loaf , especially a loaf that was perhaps too large to begin with , was better than no loaf . ’ |
| 24 | One of those misled was Trotsky himself , who completely misread the real import of what Bukharin had written , as we shall see in the next chapter . |
| 25 | Diodorus ' sources were less interested in it than in Sicily , as was Diodorus himself : he gives the Roman consuls and even some episodes of Roman history like the Decemvirate , but does not help much with the Greek cities which are our present concern . |
| 26 | She moved on , overhearing talk of broccoli , of death in Kabul , of the phenomenal transatlantic success of Pete Petrie 's new novel , and there was Petrie himself talking to that little monster Ivan about his meeting with Norman Mailer , whooping with laughter , and hitting his own bald head with emphatic glee . |
| 27 | Indeed , it was Beveridge himself who claimed in the midst of the war that ‘ the most general effect of war is to make he common people more important ’ . |
| 28 | The likeliest was Morpurgo himself , because , though not killed , he had been silenced , whereas both Cunningham and Ockleton could have spoken out afterwards — unless they were too frightened to do so . |
| 29 | He had to thresh with his arms to get himself upright again and , it seemed to Marie , all he had done was drive himself even further down into the mud . |
| 30 | It was Charles himself , in his last , disastrous agreement with the Scots , who proposed , however insincerely , the temporary replacement of episcopacy by Presbyterianism as the State religion . |