Example sentences of "[adv] show himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this association with one of the central families of the emergent Tory party Banks soon showed himself willing to extend his financial activities to the post-Revolution Whig governments . |
| 2 | This points the way to the culturalist approach to which Hirsch has elsewhere shown himself sympathetic . |
| 3 | Since he had been hailed as the new John Edrich and had already shown himself capable of taking on that mantle , it was a bad blow for England . |
| 4 | Salmond has since shown himself responsive to calls for cross-party unity among the opposition , but Brian Wilson ( ‘ The Union strikes back ’ , 24 April ) seems still to be revelling in partisan spite . |
| 5 | He has often shown himself ready to make concessions when faced with genuine mass discontent . |
| 6 | The Shah now showed himself incapable of decisive action , Dispatches form Both the British and the American embassies at the time commented on him with patronizing contempt . |
| 7 | In this , Rodrigo once again displayed his judgement of what was best for Spain , for under this oath Alfonso gained the support of those who doubted his right to rule , as well as the support of El Cid himself , who now showed himself willing to stand by the new King . |
| 8 | He has so far shown himself incapable of a knockout punch witness his feeble reply in the Commons yesterday to the onslaughts from his former Chancellor and from Labour leader John Smith . |
| 9 | François de Surienne certainly showed himself capable of independent activity before throwing in his lot for some years with Henry VI , whom he served before being elected a Knight of the Garter . |