Example sentences of "[vb base] himself [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankl himself came through four concentration camps with an unimpaired , nay an enhanced , mentality . |
| 2 | Place himself wrote to Harriet Martineau that he had been assured by physicians that delayed marriages were a physical danger to women . |
| 3 | Time and again , it appears that Place himself wrote in afterthoughts or amended text , often many years after first writing it . |
| 4 | Anselm himself remembered from his youth , and in old age told his companions , a story of a Roman judge in the time of Pope Leo IX , who was condemned to eternal punishment because he had incurred the hostility of saints Agnes and Laurence by depriving their churches in Rome of a garden and three houses respectively . |
| 5 | Then Miguel himself came round the corner of the villa , dressed in a white open-necked shirt and dark fitted trousers . |
| 6 | It was also used by the armies of the eastern emperor , Theodosius , when he marched through the Balkans in AD 394 to overthrow Eugenius and make himself master of both eastern and western empires . |
| 7 | It is so-called because of the compound fracture of the leg which Pott himself suffered as the result of an accident in 1756 . |
| 8 | Eddy himself lives in Oxford , and this morning he told me that the final piece of his Formula One jigsaw fell into place recently with a major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers , Seven Up . |
| 9 | Giesecke himself arrived in Leith in October 1813 dressed in furs and feathers , his European clothes having perished . |
| 10 | He went not to collect particulars and feed them into a computer , he went to get down on his knees and get himself covered in mud and blood . |
| 11 | Methods of clinical investigation were in their infancy , and it was open to any distinguished consultant to adopt a new treatment , profess himself satisfied by its results and enhance his reputation and his practice accordingly . |
| 12 | ‘ I will entertain your offer for his ransom , if he will publicly close his blood-feud against me , and pledge himself to think of it no more . ’ |
| 13 | No , best set such thoughts aside , lest he find himself thinking of nothing else . |
| 14 | A man may show an interest in a woman , simply wanting to try out his style , and then find himself ensnared by the admiration and attention she beams at him . |
| 15 | In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ? |
| 16 | Tod himself weeps like a baby before the dreams happen . |
| 17 | Exactly a year later Chlothar himself died of fever at Compiègne . |
| 18 | Yrtle himself fell in battle and was buried with great honour . |
| 19 | Asshe himself sat in the midst , the long grey beard he had grown for Lear spreading out abundantly , his white hair wild as though on the blasted heath . |
| 20 | We shall examine the relation of this new humanism to the history of Western colonialism in a later chapter : it is not a question that Foucault himself elaborates in the course of what is claimed to be an , ethnology of Western culture' . |
| 21 | oh yeah , it 'll take him all day to get ready for it , psyching himself up , mentally prepare himself to get into the kitchen |
| 22 | Bogle himself sits at the desk by the door and takes the money . |