Example sentences of "[art] [noun] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite clear against the background that I have described that it was intended that it should be an exceptional power and that it should be used only when there are no other ways in which the individual applicant may consider the case himself through the planning process . |
| 2 | He must and would take the field himself against Glendower , and make an end of him . |
| 3 | For the lack of overt reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ in his major speeches , and the omission of his name as a signatory to the boycott ‘ appeal ’ can only be seen as a deliberate policy to detach the Führer himself in his public image from the violent anti Jewish rhetoric and actions of which he privately approved . |
| 4 | In his early twenties Wordsworth wandered the roads himself in search of case histories — see Guilt and Sorrow or Old Man Travelling — and when he settled at Grasmere he lived alongside a road which was used by travellers to Whitehaven and to Scotland in bad weather ; Dorothy 's Journals are full of encounters with wanderers . |
| 5 | He played the accompaniments himself at this stage . |
| 6 | But her little brother took to the instrument himself at the age of four , and soon learnt some of Nannerl 's pieces . |
| 7 | In his well-known ‘ boutades ’ against politicians Pétain appeared to fear no one ; to Poincaré he once remarked acidly that ‘ nobody was better placed than the President himself to be aware that France was neither led nor governed . ’ |
| 8 | Frank 's incorrigible efforts at flirtation had become tiresome to her and , the truth of the matter was , he was no great dandy on the ice himself for all his mockery . |
| 9 | The United States Constitution is considered by Americans to embody the principles of a higher law , to constitute " in fact imperfect man 's most perfect rendering of what Blackstone saluted as " the eternal immutable laws of good and evil , to which the creator himself in all his dispensations conforms : and which he has enabled human reason to discover , so far as they are necessary for the conduct of human actions . " |
| 10 | Bill Gates will supposedly do the honours himself at his Windows World keynote . |
| 11 | Bill Gates will supposedly do the honours himself in his Windows World keynote address . |
| 12 | It is only when the frequency and magnitude of each behaviour is sufficiently marked and sufficiently prolonged to impede the child himself in his daily life or cause distress to his family or community that it can be defined as disorder ( Rutter et al. , 1970 ) . |
| 13 | I think he even been on the boards himself in the early days . |
| 14 | The vote was made at the request of Mitsotakis after he dismissed Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and assumed the post himself on April 13 . |
| 15 | It also demanded a change in the way in which the government was appointed ( the Fifth Congress having given the President the power to appoint ministers ) and a new Prime Minister in place of Yeltsin , who had taken on the post himself in October 1991 [ see p. 38537 ] . |
| 16 | At 32 Rue St Honoré , they met with Raymond Eddi , a distinguished Lebanese parliamentarian in exile , and Marcel Boutros , Aoun 's personal envoy , who invited Coleman to meet the general himself at the presidential palace in Baabda . |
| 17 | Then they and the Russian had deposed him and installed the Shah himself on the throne in 1941 . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the Shah 's 707 , with the Shah himself at the controls , climbed and turned away towards the West , the source of many of his dreams and illusions , and now the object of hatred of many of his people . |
| 19 | Roman answered the phone himself at the first ring , and Claudia 's heart turned over . |
| 20 | And the major himself of course . |
| 21 | In France they have devised a logical system whereby senior officials of the Bureau d'Enquête d'Accident are formally recognised by the magistrate as officials of his court , thereby relieving the magistrate himself of much responsibility relating to highly technical matters of which he has little comprehension while at the same time enabling the professional investigators immediate access to the wreckage of the aircraft and its records , etc. in their pursuit of the cause of the accident . |
| 22 | The truce gave Edward a useful breathing space in which to organize a much more substantial force , and in July 1335 a two-pronged invasion of Scotland began , led from Carlisle by the king himself with over 13,000 men and from Berwick by Edward Balliol . |
| 23 | The British press continued to display a discretion which was a remarkable tribute to the influence of the Palace as an institution with the ‘ respectable ’ proprietors , and of the King himself with Rothermere and Beaverbrook . |
| 24 | Failure of heirs , or the survival only of heiresses , was exploited by the king himself for the benefit of his own sons , who expected endowments and titles as befitted their rank and who by virtue of their birth played a leading part in aristocratic society . |
| 25 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 26 | He was fourteen years old , intelligent , forceful , capable of listening attentively to his ministers and then overruling them and going his own way , capable , even , or so they said , of arguing a case strenuously and sensibly against the king himself in Westminster , though he seldom won his way there ; but he was still a boy , unpractised , with little experience yet of living . |
| 27 | ‘ They say he would beat up the devil himself for a shilling , ’ replied Barney . |
| 28 | You know me , I run with the hare an' hunt with the hounds : I 'd suck up to the devil himself for a penny . ’ |
| 29 | He was their only guest and of course her father had given him the ‘ big room ’ — used by the landlord himself in the winter . |
| 30 | He filed the petition himself at Middlesbrough County Court . |