Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately for Joseph , Jerome misread the situation and rode into the Indian camp , where he himself was seized . |
| 2 | It gave Hazel an impression of good feeding , of health and of a certain indolence , as though the other came from some rich , prosperous country where he himself had never been . |
| 3 | The matter may also arise indirectly in situations in which the decision-maker belongs to an organisation which initiated the proceeding , but where he himself has taken no part in the decision to prosecute . |
| 4 | The intra-Christian fighting of the first half of 1990 did not result in any tangible changes in territorial control over the enclave ; the LF maintained control of Jounieh and Jubail areas to the north of Beirut as well as the East Beirut quarters of Ashrafieh and Karantina , while Aoun held on to the area around the Baabda Presidential palace , where he himself was based , and around Ras al Metn and the southern entrances to East Beirut . |
| 5 | He is a married man living with his family in the Creggan estate where he himself had been born and reared . ’ |
| 6 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 7 | Stuart Bailey , station master of Rothley on the Great Central Railway , has heard many stories of ghosts which have appeared at his station , although he himself has no first-hand experience of the supernatural . |
| 8 | And although he himself often said he was ‘ spoilt ’ , ‘ a little lord ’ , nobody else accused him of that . |
| 9 | Basil Rocke was the elder brother of Niel Rocke and Colin Rocke , both of whom were boys at school , although he himself did not come here . |
| 10 | Clive felt that this was very low and , although he himself did not feel undue deprivation , that it was a straw in the wind and that their sexual relationship was ominously on the wane . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes … and although he himself wanted the contemplative life , he was drawn out into the world and given the episcopate of Strathclyde , at Glasgow , when he was twenty-five years old . |
| 12 | Although he himself had not had much formal education , he was literate , well read and articulate . |
| 13 | Although it is worth stressing that Saussure 's work is open to a variety of interpretations , and although he himself did not use the concepts structure and structural , it was his idea of the arbitrary and differential nature of the linguistic sign , and therefore of the essential disjunction between language and reality , that became the foundation of the structuralist movement . |
| 14 | Lavinia had had relationships before although he himself had little interest in women . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mr Urbanek said the party was ‘ in a deep crisis ’ and that he himself was partly responsible . |
| 21 | He had confided to her that he himself suffered with back trouble . |
| 22 | Tammuz , sitting opposite the gleaming androgyne of surgery and neural nudging , considered that he himself was feeling far from good that day . |
| 23 | But his father decided that he himself would marry a third wife , and that his son could wait another year or two . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He added that he himself must ‘ inevitably live with the knowledge that I am now more likely to develop cancer ’ . |
| 26 | Slothrop 's search , however , has scarcely begun before he realizes that he himself is under investigation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | John told me that he himself never saw the work performed on stage , being busy elsewhere by the time it went on . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Another thing is that he himself might not be able to afford to send her the money , especially as he has a young family . ’ |