Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little evidence about Ermentrude herself at the time of the marriage . |
| 2 | My speculations were cut short by the appearance of Karen herself at my elbow . |
| 3 | Someone was approaching , clad like Melissa herself in waterproof and wellingtons . |
| 4 | Belinda waited quietly , sensing her patient 's need for distraction , but wanting to take a cue from Faye herself before launching into shallow chat . |
| 5 | Alix bought some the next day , on her free half day in Cambridge before she took the Bletchley route to her Oxford interview ( for she was a clever girl , Alix ) — but she never dared to apply it , save in the privacy of her own room , until she went to Cambridge herself as a bona fide student the following autumn . |
| 6 | ‘ And the police will have spoken to Delia herself by now , so we ca n't expect to find anything new there . ’ |
| 7 | I imagine him sliding over to Madonna herself with the words : ‘ I see , right , you and Bobby Gillespie , right , remaking ‘ Like A Virgin ’ , totally naked with a 36-piece orchestra , right . ’ |
| 8 | He looked round the drawing-room , at the pictures and looking-glasses and ornaments shrouded in black , at Alexandra herself in the first mourning dress she had ever had . |
| 9 | The standard solution to this ‘ data-collecting problem ’ would be the one adopted by Lavandera herself in her 1975 study , of structuring interview questions so as to encourage the appearance of linguistic contexts which required the subjunctive ( cf. 7.2 ) . |
| 10 | But such criticisms were rebutted this week by Selina herself with the simple argument that whatever her talents are , one of them lies in getting people to watch her on the television . |
| 11 | She was never told by the London office or by Mary herself of the important part that Miss Read had played in the Tiller story . |
| 12 | The request for release from monstrous tyranny is made by Eirena herself to the Faerie Queene , whose champion Artegall is . |
| 13 | In order to avoid unnecessary complications , the Principle of Minimal Departure needs to be inscribed within a cognitive theory of comprehension , or within a typology of fictional genres such as the one suggested by Ryan herself in Chapter 2 . |
| 14 | ‘ Picked by Cook herself in the kitchen garden , ’ said Inspector Milsom with evident approval . |