Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carole , who had fallen to the floor and was attempting to massage her husband 's knee , looked up to see Kenneth Baker himself in a camel-hair dressing gown , flanked by two men with guns . |
| 2 | Perhaps you even bear a secret claim by King Edward himself to be ruler of Scotland ! ’ |
| 3 | Against this decision the applicant sought and obtained leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council , but since there was an issue both as to the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal to hear the appeal from Barnett J. , and as to the power of that court to grant onward leave , the applicant also applied to Barnett J. himself for leave to appeal direct . |
| 4 | His removal , reportedly suggested by Gen. Pinochet himself after an internal army inquiry , was accompanied by the arrest of three people connected with the case and the placing of a restriction order on another six . |
| 5 | After a brief return to London , he went to Manchester , and was soon in business building spinning machines for the cotton mills , from which he graduated to becoming a mill owner himself at New Lanark ( q.v. ) with a thousand employees . |
| 6 | Even if he had not known Aunt Emily himself at all well , he seemed to have an inkling of Alexandra 's feelings and he was , among all those condoling faces , the only one she felt comfortable with . |
| 7 | Hillier , who 's since served a jail sentence himself in connection with the fiddle , reported him to the police . |
| 8 | It was , however , Lord Denning M.R. himself in Schmit v. Secretary of State for Home Affairs , who stated that while natural justice could apply to an administrative act , it would depend upon whether the individual had some right , interest , or legitimate expectation such that it would not be fair to deprive him of it , without a hearing . |
| 9 | The itinerary included parts of Czechoslovakia and Austria and a day trip into Hungary , with Martin Randall himself as the lecturer . |
| 10 | President Ortega himself on Feb. 28 ordered Sandinista forces to observe an immediate unilateral ceasefire so that the 12,000 contras based in Honduras could demobilize immediately , otherwise , he asserted , power could not be transferred on April 25 . |
| 11 | I remember the first production of The corn is Green with Sybil Thorndyke playing the hopeful headmistress and Emlyn Williams himself as the talented Welsh miner . |
| 12 | She 'd wondered who 'd handle that side of it somehow she could n't imagine the night manager himself with a housekeeping trolley piled high with sheets and towels . |
| 13 | Watching the old gentleman turn himself into a stripling and seeing the irrepressible signs of affection between George and Catherine , he envied them deeply . |
| 14 | About a month after the finals of Van Cliburn , I ran into Van Cliburn himself in Moscow , where he was making his great return concert at the personal invitation of the Gorbachevs . |
| 15 | He started accusing everyone from Sam Gristy to Jan Treffry himself of meddling with his fish barrels , and insisted on one of Sam 's barrels being opened as well ; but when it was found to be brim full Martha told him in plain terms that as far as she was concerned , he had lost the contest . |
| 16 | No unattached man , should he by some miracle present himself at Four Winds , would want to have anything to do with a dejected and increasingly agoraphobic young mother , still in her teens , and a baby whose fretfulness was beginning to get on even Harriet 's nerves . |
| 17 | See Martin Sheen drunkenly method act himself into a heart attack , watch made Marlon improvise pure nonsense out of thin air and discover the real-life Dennis Hopper to be more manic than his character . |
| 18 | Treading almost on the heels of this conviction was the bogey of Havelock Wilson himself for whom many employers harboured feelings " perilously near hatred " . |
| 19 | In addition , the war years had turned de Gaulle himself into a national leader and given him a unique symbolic identity , and yet had left him an inexperienced politician without an organized or cohesive following . |
| 20 | the dedication to Huntingtower explains that McCunn can claim descent from Baillie Nicol Jarvie in Rob Roy and that ‘ he can count kin , should he wish ’ with Rob Roy himself through ‘ the auld wife ayont the fire at Stackavrallachan ’ , while a secret fervour for the lost cause of the Stuarts helps to equip the sedentary , fifty-five-year-old grocer of the 1920s for unexpected challenges . |
| 21 | The court said that it was not intended in Seymour to cast doubt on Venna which had used the Cunningham definition ( but was pre-Caldwell ) , and Venna was approved in DPP v Majewski [ 1977 ] AC 443 and seemingly by Lord Diplock himself in Caldwell . |
| 22 | Finally at the field of Maledor at the very entrance to the passes of Nagarythe Caledor faced the Witch King himself in battle and defeated the mightiest of his armies , driving them into the marshes of Maledor . |
| 23 | It would be a different tale if they were in the king 's own shoes , for he 's a marcher lord himself by reason of his Bohun marriage , and when Wales is in question he thinks like a marcher lord , and there 's an end of it . |
| 24 | Each vehicle was crewed by two men , with Fire Chief Bob Wallace himself in the cab of the lead one . |
| 25 | They walk together now , Philip listening , in horror and disbelief , as Iain unburdens himself of the story . |
| 26 | In 1928–29 he was an ideal supplier of chances for Len Griffiths and Harry Havelock , while also providing 10 League goals himself from 16 appearances ( including a hat-trick at Brighton just before Christmas ) and helping the Palace to their best run in the FA Cup for years . |
| 27 | Lamarck , and many of his contemporaries ( including Charles Darwin himself in the later stages of his life ) , supposed that repeated use of a trait could itself change the genetic material that was responsible for the transmission of that trait so that characters acquired or improved by repeated use could be inherited directly by the offspring . |
| 28 | He had just time to form them up and move a little way forward himself from their hiding-place , to where he could see the ford and its approaches on either side , when the first fleeing riders came pounding down , splashing over and racing on . |
| 29 | We forgot to mention that as an added bonus the winner will be presented with the 555 by Paul Chandler himself at the London Music Show ‘ 92 , so get dialling and it could be you . |
| 30 | If anything , the PROFITBOSS subordinates himself to his people . |