Example sentences of "[pron] of himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gossip put nothing of himself to the test but his patience . |
| 2 | ‘ He can have heard nothing of himself at all , ’ said Cadfael contentedly . |
| 3 | Modigliani must have sensed the originality in the young boy 's personality even at that age ; perhaps he saw something of himself as a youth . |
| 4 | Music 's place in our services may be seen as a gift of God which he uses to reveal something of himself to us . |
| 5 | Maybe Daine had somehow cooperated in his own extermination , but transferred something of himself to his heir . |
| 6 | The old man recognised something of himself in the picture , stepped back and narrowed his eyes . |
| 7 | Willoughby de Broke saw something of himself in his grandmother , ‘ a good whip and a good horsewoman ’ , who taught him to ride and launched him on an obsessively pursued career in hunting . |
| 8 | Even so , he could see something of himself in her ; that same hardness in the face of adversity . |
| 9 | It had been born of an instinctive recognition of the damage he could do to her emotional independence and , paradoxically , exacerbated by the way he had deprived her of himself by having her dismissed from that job ; finally there had been his open contempt when they had met again … |