Example sentences of "that [pers pn] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been reminded that the bookies ' smoke signals usually signify a lot more than just grandiose waves of their Havana cigars , Ramsden then revealed that he himself might have been inadvertantly responsible for the Travelling Light rumour . |
| 2 | We have an eye-witness who heard him when he went to preach at Easington colliery to a large congregation of miners and their families , who felt that he himself and the other hearers were electrified . |
| 3 | Half-jokingly , but with a certain edge , Moran said that Great Meadow was so deserted that he himself might have to remove himself before long to her house . |
| 4 | Now he is just flattered by the label — ‘ the British Marvin Hagler ’ — which Bob Arum , the American promoter investing that $2 million , has tagged on him ; previously he would have been angry that he himself had not invented it . |
| 5 | Now he is just flattered by the label — ‘ the British Marvin Hagler ’ — which Bob Arum , the American promoter investing that $2 million , has tagged on him ; previously he would have been angry that he himself had not invented it . |
| 6 | Mr Urbanek said the party was ‘ in a deep crisis ’ and that he himself was partly responsible . |
| 7 | He had confided to her that he himself suffered with back trouble . |
| 8 | Tammuz , sitting opposite the gleaming androgyne of surgery and neural nudging , considered that he himself was feeling far from good that day . |
| 9 | But his father decided that he himself would marry a third wife , and that his son could wait another year or two . |
| 10 | The difference with this baby is that he himself has selected the time at which he will display the pattern , rather than having it imposed on him by a mother 's pattern of giving care . |
| 11 | He added that he himself must ‘ inevitably live with the knowledge that I am now more likely to develop cancer ’ . |
| 12 | Slothrop 's search , however , has scarcely begun before he realizes that he himself is under investigation . |
| 13 | He was also tired and cold , and in between worrying that Prince Richard was lying at the bottom of the lake with a broken neck had been forced to entertain the idea that he himself might be less fit than he should be . |
| 14 | John told me that he himself never saw the work performed on stage , being busy elsewhere by the time it went on . |
| 15 | Man 's discovery that he himself , like other living creatures , is born and dies must have led him intuitively to try to circumvent the relentless flux of time by seeking to perpetuate his own existence indefinitely . |
| 16 | Another thing is that he himself might not be able to afford to send her the money , especially as he has a young family . ’ |
| 17 | No wonder poor Dad was embarrassed , even though I must have been repeating something that he himself had said . |
| 18 | This does not mean that he himself thought a trust the ideal way to realize his intentions . |
| 19 | But equally , Gale gives no indication that he himself has understood how obviously ridiculous Lamarck 's theories of physics and chemistry were in his own day — and it was on these that his theory of evolution was based . |
| 20 | It can now be seen as a deliberate political reaction to the earlier building , and it is even recorded that on its completion in 537 Justinian promised God that he himself had ‘ vanquished Solomon . ’ |
| 21 | That he himself became deified lends credence to the concept of the Created God as herein defined , and to the assertion that mankind needs a ‘ god ’ . |
| 22 | The press would have had a field day , and what Frank did n't realize is that he himself would have been a laughing stock . |
| 23 | And at the back of his mind , knowing that Jean-Paul had never married and seemed unlikely to , knowing that he himself had met no woman he wished to make his wife , he thought : Grégoire could be my heir . |
| 24 | By demanding payment on a trifling amount , he is remembering what he should have forgotten and forgetting what he should have remembered — that he himself has just been forgiven . |
| 25 | If we make sure of the right answer to these questions we will develop the full , clear picture of God that he himself has given us in his revelation . |
| 26 | Gandhi admits that satyāgrahis are capable of making erroneous decisions and that he himself made a Himalayan miscalculation in instituting mass satyāgraha in Ahmedabad without teaching the people involved in the movement the strict conditions and necessary limitations of satyāgraha . |
| 27 | But it is interesting that among the ‘ great issues of today and tomorrow ’ that he himself wrote as an agenda for Labour , prominence is given to one on equality : ‘ whether , as we grow richer , this new wealth is used exclusively for individual selfishness or for the growth of necessary community services , and whether , in consequence , we follow or escape the American precedent of great private affluence surrounding rotting public services ’ . |
| 28 | They left Verdeţ unsure about how Ceauşescu would react to the miners ' insistence that he himself should come . |
| 29 | He was curious to see the minister , although he made Willie Hamilton come with him up to the gallery , so that he himself would not be noted by the dragon of a wife or her daughter . |
| 30 | That he himself was made extremely comfortable under Sophia 's excellent management the Colonel never considered . |