Example sentences of "himself [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Rechem case comes to Scotland as the Judge sees for himself the former factory . |
| 2 | Jacob must be asking himself the same questions now . |
| 3 | ‘ T is so no more ’ , that is , he can no longer consider himself the same person — he has become , at last , a human being ( line 36 ) , not a dreaming poet , and he can not go back to the earlier state . |
| 4 | He 'd often asked himself the same question . |
| 5 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 6 | He moved away from the mirror , seated himself a little way from the top of the main staircase and wrapped the tails of the shirt around his legs . |
| 7 | Peter : What he 's done today is buy himself a little time , his troubles are n't over , Mrs Thatcher still casts her shadow over this conference he still has problems inside and outside the cabinet but he has bought some time . |
| 8 | Colin McEachran , the council vice-chairman and himself a former Games shooting silver medallist , said : ‘ We 're aiming the appeal at the whole spectrum of Scottish life . |
| 9 | When Hun Sen , himself a former Khmer Rouge commander who fled to Vietnam , gives his list of eight Khmer Rouge leaders whom he absolutely refuses to include in any political deal , it is the same people who studied together in Paris in the 1950s , fought in the jungles from 1967 , captured Phnom Penh in 1975 , led the government of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 , and fled to Thailand in 1979 after the Vietnamese invasion . |
| 10 | Mr Jones declined to comment on John Patten 's allegations , but his party colleague Lord Home of Cheltenham , himself a former candidate in the town , says he 's outraged … |
| 11 | The first Private Bill ever in the Lords is to be proposed by either Lord Winstanley , himself a former GP , or Lord Allen . |
| 12 | It is particularly fitting that Underwood should have chosen to step down in a year when the president of the Rugby Football Union is Peter Yarranton , himself a former England player and RAF pilot , who will be at today 's game . |
| 13 | The son of the legendary Derek and himself a former Gloucestershire player , Shackleton also took 5 for 13 to bowl out Cheshire for 80 in their second innings as they lost to Dorset at Dorchester . |
| 14 | Public meetings were organized , MPs lobbied ( including the Bridgwater incumbent , Tom King , himself a former Energy Minister ) , and a mass of information produced to emphasize both the nuclear threat and the local disruption this development would bring to everything from roads to wildlife . |
| 15 | Tighter Government guidelines for areas of outstanding natural beauty like the Cotswolds are being blamed by the nurseries planning consultant , himself a former planning chief . |
| 16 | Dr Horrobin , himself a former professor of medicine in Montreal , has built up a company with sales of £16m and profits of the order of £6.5m and has plans to bring Efamol to the stockmarket . |
| 17 | A statement made by Daniel McPhee , the travellers ' spokesman and himself a former traveller agrees with what the police super . |
| 18 | However , I kept trying and with the help of Mr Norman Tebbit , our then junior minister and himself a former airline pilot , the project went through . |
| 19 | Calling himself a former pupil of J. T. Desaguliers [ q.v . ] , |
| 20 | Steve Tshwete , himself a former flanker and now the ANC 's chief of sport , told RW&P in an exclusive interview to be published next month , that sportsmen would be expected to ‘ take the field wearing armbands and stickers on their kits showing their commitment to peace and democracy in South Africa ’ and to ‘ show their support for out struggle by visiting the scene of the Boipatong massacre ’ . |
| 21 | He began to make himself a few pence early on — running messages , collecting newspapers for the chip shops and horse dung for fertiliser , finding the pay-penny cracks in life on the narrow streets . |
| 22 | It was also possible for fearful accidents to occur to a driller who decided to save himself a few inches by using the bottom of an exploded shot-hole . |
| 23 | The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle . |
| 24 | He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible . |
| 25 | He permitted himself a few seconds to savour his revenge , before delivering the coup de grace with a heti'i power-kick , which would snap Grant 's neck like a dried stick . |
| 26 | He 's gone to bowl in the deep mid wicket position and Gooch just giving himself a few yards er mid-on . |