Example sentences of "of [noun] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the war ( except during the worst days of the blitz ) the Gallup Poll had been assessing the popularity of the government , and of Churchill himself as Prime Minister . |
| 2 | He designed a series of posters including one of Branson himself under the caption ‘ No One is Innocent ’ , an another bearing a swastika made of cannabis leaves , the Virgin logo and what had become a Sex Pistols ' slogan , ‘ Never trust a hippie ’ . |
| 3 | Sitting at peace with his ailing woman , tenderly responsive , he imagined his mouth curved in a mysterious smile ‘ like that of Rembrandt himself in his self-portrait in which Saskia is sitting on his knee and he has a glass of wine in his hand . ’ |
| 4 | My father is an educated man , and he passed a lot of what he already knew on to me , as well as doing a fair bit of study himself into areas he did n't know all that much about just so that he could teach me . |
| 5 | The Minister had planned a speech of thanks himself during a visit to Stoke Mandeville Hospital … but Adis Avdic stole his thunder . |
| 6 | Some art historians detect the hand of Leonardo himself on the canvas , and it 's now generally accepted to be the most perfect version of the Last Supper in existence . |
| 7 | His total of eight stolen bases in the A's 4-1 series victory was a post-season record , he scored eight runs in total and even managed a couple of homers himself in Saturday 's 6-5 win in the SkyDome . |
| 8 | Often , but by no means invariably , the medreses involved were imperial foundations , such as the medrese of Suleyman 's mother , Hafsa Sultan , in Manisa ( 929/1523 ) ; the medreses of Suleyman himself in Rhodes ( 956/1549 ) and Damascus ( 973/1566 ) ; and that of Selim II on the newly-conquered island of Cyprus ( 978–9/1570–1 ) . |
| 9 | ( Rom 8 ) Not only are there the promises of Jesus himself on which to base this expectation but there is the evidence of the resurrection . |
| 10 | Rather , all our statements must be qualified , and indeed negated , even as they are made , and only by such affirmation and negation is room made to hear the authentic Word of God himself through them . |
| 11 | We , Christian communicators from 14 African countries , are committed to the proclamation of the Kingdom of God to the whole of humanity through mass media and other means of communication , following the example of God Himself as a communicator Who has revealed Himself in His Son , Jesus Christ . |
| 12 | The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day . |
| 13 | This is not because of their magnificence — Grex Castle in Yorkshire , built in the reign of James I , although very wild and very uncomfortable , is compared favourably by the Duke of Omnium himself with Gatherum — it is because of the social traditions that they represent . |
| 14 | He therefore set out to produce a corrected text first of the letters of Paul his hero , then of the gospel of Paul 's companion Luke ( the other gospels being scrapped ) , which he thought the work of Paul himself in its original form . |
| 15 | The relation of Foucault 's politics to history leads to the question of the tactical use of Foucault himself in current forms of criticism ; in addition to his extensive use by historians and sociologists , he is also associated with those movements that have become known as ‘ new historicism ’ and ‘ cultural materialism ’ . |