Example sentences of "himself capable of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is certainly no evidence that Steven Morrissey ever considered himself capable of fronting a band in these wilderness years . |
| 2 | Since he had been hailed as the new John Edrich and had already shown himself capable of taking on that mantle , it was a bad blow for England . |
| 3 | The wily president had showed himself capable of taking action while others were just bickering . |
| 4 | A purely commercial operation would have been happy to finance product-ions by Orson Welles , who repeatedly proved himself capable of producing high quality material on a shoestring . |
| 5 | A judge should not be seen as a witness who held himself capable of comparing handwriting and reached conclusions of the comparisons . |
| 6 | ‘ Boris Nikolayevich … intends to act as resolutely as he showed himself capable of acting in the fateful days of August 1991 , ’ said spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikov , referring to Mr Yeltsin 's role in thwarting a Communist coup . |
| 7 | Having answered his own question of whether he would make the cut , he proved himself capable of denying the one that he was a one-major wonder . |