Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun prp] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 2 | A comely pair , resembling Lexandro himself in countenance … |
| 3 | Certainly there was much concern about ‘ right values ’ at that time and the writer can remember an American teacher asking Townsend himself at a conference if he was ‘ completely happy ’ about the ‘ irregularities , in the family of his Gumble 's yard . |
| 4 | The nauseating ‘ documentary ’ film , Der ewige Jude ( The Eternal Jew ) , receiving its première in November 1940 — a year which also saw the production of two other anti-Semitic films , Jud Süss and Die Rothschilds , in a concentrated attempt to ‘ educate ’ German opinion and harden attitudes on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ — provides an illustration of the way in which propaganda was now directly linking Hitler himself with the need for a most radical ‘ solution ’ to the ‘ Jewish problem ’ . |
| 5 | The real benefit of reading Baudelaire himself on the art of his contemporaries is the chance of recovering some of the excitement the poet felt . |
| 6 | In the early hours of Sunday 13 February 1692 , Captain Campbell , from a clan hostile to the Macdonalds , along with 120 of his soldiers , whom the Macdonalds had been entertaining for the previous fortnight , suddenly fell upon their hosts and butchered them , shooting Macdonald himself in the back and killing nearly 70 men , women and children . |