Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The itinerary included parts of Czechoslovakia and Austria and a day trip into Hungary , with Martin Randall himself as the lecturer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Treading almost on the heels of this conviction was the bogey of Havelock Wilson himself for whom many employers harboured feelings " perilously near hatred " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Each vehicle was crewed by two men , with Fire Chief Bob Wallace himself in the cab of the lead one . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | With his black garb , Italianate features and fearsome reputation , Sir Edmund must appear as Master Lucifer himself to the peasants of Templecombe Manor . |
| 20 | The report favours the setting of attainment targets for children at 7 , 11 and 16 ( though with some publicly expressed reservations by Sir John Kingman himself about whether English can be ‘ mastered rung by rung ’ as in climbing a ladder ( Nash , 1988 ) ) , and spells out in some detail what these should be . |
| 21 | In the summer of 1979 , well before the Iran hostage crisis , Carter 's approval rating , as measured by an ABC-Harris poll , had slumped to 25 per cent and in commenting on the crisis of national leadership Lance Morrow wrote : This is to state in moderately colourful terms some of the points raised in previous pages and also addressed by Jimmy Carter himself in his memoirs : It is difficult to quarrel with the main thrust of Carter 's observations , although indiscipline within the Democratic party was hardly a new development . |