Example sentences of "by [noun] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observers were divided over the role played by Chadli himself in this dramatic turn of events . |
| 2 | The weapon was old as the world and deadly as poison , a shard of the fatal weapon forged by Vaul himself for the death god Khaela-Mensha-Khaine , a fragment of crystallised death capable of slaying daemons and gods alike . |
| 3 | In fact the principle of non-interference was invoked by Brezhnev himself after 1975 in response to Western criticisms about human rights violations in the Communist bloc . |
| 4 | In 1596 he published an edition of the Spanish version of Calvin 's Catechism ( 1559 ) , and one of the New Testament from the Spanish Bible of Basle ( 1569 ) , which was eventually followed by a revision of the whole Bible , printed in Amsterdam ( 1602 ) , and supervised there by Valera himself in his seventieth year . |
| 5 | A similar clarification was made by Menem himself on Jan. 8 when he also suggested the possibility that he might make an official visit to the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | Samuel Pipkin , eagerness all over his face , had bounded up to the reading desk , arranged to look identical to that used by Dickens himself in his tours around the country . |
| 7 | The contrast between the two kings was ruefully noted by Louis himself in a remark he made to Walter Map : |
| 8 | The collection totals 360 items and is exceptionally diverse , ranging from forty-two works by Epstein himself to a number of outstanding paintings and drawings : William Blake ‘ The Humility of the Saviour ’ ; van Gogh ‘ Sorrow ’ , a drawing of 1882 ; Monet ‘ Le chemin creux dans la falaise a Varangeville ’ , oil on canvas ; Degas , ‘ Portrait de Marguerite , soeur de l'artiste ’ , oil on canvas , circa 1860–65 ; Lucien Freud ‘ Portrait of Kitty ’ , oil on board , 1948–49 and three other works by Freud ; Gericault , a nude figure study ; Constable , a cloud study ; Turner , watercolour of Carlisle , as well as Egyptian , Greek , Roman , Middle Eastern and gothic works of art . |
| 9 | A sad little grave stood by the side of the church , with some lines by Yeats himself as an epitaph . |
| 10 | One of the most impressive demonstrations of the virtues of this contextual , or holistic , approach is that offered by Radcliffe-Brown himself in a paper entitled ‘ The Mother 's Brother in South Africa ’ and first published in 1925 . |
| 11 | More specifically , significant pressure was exerted on Moscow by the Cuban Communist party and by Castro himself with his new policy orientation . |
| 12 | In his view , ‘ The death of Samson ’ is the first finished , authentic painting by Rubens in the museum 's collection ( he dismisses the other paintings , most bought by J. Paul Getty himself , as being ‘ largely to entirely ’ studio works ) , though there are three fine oil sketches by the artist , notably ‘ The Miracles of St Francis of Paola ’ ( 1627/8 ) , bought by Goldner himself in 1991 . |
| 13 | and that had been so cruelly denied to Isaac by Jacob himself in his youth . |
| 14 | Everything was cooked on primus stoves by Bennett himself in pots and pans that had been thoroughly cleaned and rinsed with boiling water . |
| 15 | They were published by Green himself at 3 Windmill Street , Manchester on the 19th January 1796 . |
| 16 | The best concise history of the singer was penned by Morrissey himself in the December 24 issue of Sounds . |
| 17 | The reason is that it is based , not on discernible facts , but on stories and writings that have been created by man himself in an era of his history obtaining long before he had learned that , if he were so minded , he could use his intellectual power to establish facts on which to build the structure , not only of his religion , but of the whole of his society . |
| 18 | The lecture notes of Charles Alston , Regius Keeper and Professor of Materia Medica , are preserved in a little manuscript volume written by Alston himself in 1724 . |
| 19 | The outstanding feature of these Roman operas was the splendour of the scenery and ingenuity of the scenic effects , which were devised by Bernini himself for Erminia and for Sant' Alessio when it was revived in 1634 for the entertainment of Wladyslaw IV 's brother . |
| 20 | There are many anecdotes about this ill-assorted trio , some recounted by Birkenhead himself in his chapter in Evelyn Waugh and his World ( 1973 , ed . |
| 21 | In the case of Augustus we are lucky enough to have the text of The Achievements of the Divine Augustus , which was inscribed on public buildings all over the Roman world and may have been written by Augustus himself during the course of his reign . |
| 22 | Responsibility for Foreign Affairs had been held by Mitsotakis himself since April , when he dismissed Antonis Samaras [ see p. 38873 ] . |