Example sentences of "[vb past] it himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donaldson said in a voice which suggested that he even doubted it himself . |
| 2 | Later on Adam wondered if his father had made all this up or if he really believed it himself . |
| 3 | He did not feed this to the eagles but sat and ate it himself , and spent more time staring into the deserted depths of Minch 's cage than any other . |
| 4 | Anything tampered with in the kitchen could not be guaranteed to reach Sir Thomas unless the poisoner served it himself . |
| 5 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 6 | Each horse had his own harness ; and if it could n't be spared to be sent down to the shop for repair , the horseman brought it himself , got it seen to and took it back ready for work on the next day . |
| 7 | The letter was delivered by hand but I do n't know whether he brought it himself . ’ |
| 8 | He took it himself , out on the terrace at the lakeside restaurant . |
| 9 | ‘ He made it himself . |
| 10 | and he laid it himself . |
| 11 | If an owner dwelt in the township where his land was situated the logical inference is that he occupied it himself , although there was nothing to prevent him letting off part or all of it : the Langley Marish man Richard Collis features as ‘ tenaunt to ye Queene , in landes the yerely rente , vs ’ . |
| 12 | So according to the letter someone called The Guv'nor did it himself . ’ |
| 13 | He did it himself . |
| 14 | It is a constant of any Minister 's experience — my hon. Friend referred to his experience as a Minister — that when a new scheme is introduced , there will always be somebody who did the same thing on his own initiative in the previous year and who feels that those who benefit from the newly introduced scheme are receiving an unfair advantage over the individual who took the real risk and did it himself . |
| 15 | Maybe he did it himself . ’ |
| 16 | class room , give the children an exercise to do and that was it , they did it , and no questions were asked and that 's how they want and the other guy was he just did it himself he , he was n't abusive but he , he was n't good with the kids and |
| 17 | Empirically based hypotheses were subject to revision ; for , as he put it himself , the facts might be explained in another way as yet unknown to men . |
| 18 | He bowled it himself , and Wilfred Rhodes made the winning hit . |
| 19 | There 's been a show running in London for a while called ‘ Good Rockin' Tonight ’ which is the story — probably a touch glamorised , since he wrote it himself — of Jack Good , the ‘ discoverer ’ of many of the British rock'n'roll legends , including Cliff Richard , Billy Fury and Marty Wilde . |
| 20 | And from the forensics , I believe Egan wrote it himself , perhaps to remember the address , and the paper somehow came into the hands of your brother so he knew where Egan was . |
| 21 | To avoid losing his temper the Marshal said it himself along with his first question : ‘ It was the morning that it snowed … ’ |
| 22 | Though he said it himself , Hans was a masterpiece of genetics — the end product of two centuries of breeding . |
| 23 | A few years later he accepted it himself . |
| 24 | Then , when she left a few drops , he drained it himself before laying the empty glass beside his own on the wall . |
| 25 | After he conducted it himself in Vienna , it was hailed as ‘ Beethoven 's Tenth ’ — wrongly , for this is a great and splendid symphony that is essentially Brahmsian . |
| 26 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |