Example sentences of "be [noun] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , if a hostage has to remain behind in enemy hands then it 's clearly better that it should be Summerchild himself . |
| 2 | This is not a very convincing solution , since most readers do n't feel that this a dramatic monologue , and take the ‘ I ’ of the poem to be Wordsworth himself . |
| 3 | Although he 's only the second son and will never be king himself , he 's still an important man and very popular , I hear , with many Ruritanians . |
| 4 | ‘ We all know he wants to be King himself . ’ |
| 5 | In other words he wished to be God himself , and not a creature . |
| 6 | Both Kubla and the Abyssinian maid are human creations so in a sense they are God — but Coleridge 's hubris in wanting to be God himself is doomed to failure . |
| 7 | Feuerbach 's position was more consistent : he was a philosopher who did not believe in God but was on his own admission passionately concerned with religion and theology , whose real object he held to be man himself . |
| 8 | Rincewind knew himself to be almost certainly the worst wizard on the discworld since he knew but one spell ; yet for all that he was still a wizard , and thus by the inexorable laws of magic this meant that upon his demise it would be Death himself who appeared to claim him ( instead of sending one of his numerous servants , as is usually the case ) . |