Example sentences of "himself [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The author sets himself the lofty task of presenting the reader with a balanced description of the entire field through fermentation , microbial metabolism , copolymer composition control , to solid state physical properties and biodegradation .
2 The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection .
3 In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench .
4 Which was true , though that morning , as he had spied on the French , Sharpe had recognized in himself the undeniable pleasure of doing his job well .
5 An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question .
6 He could at any time have obtained for himself the beneficial enjoyment of the whole income .
7 Robert Kilroy-Silk claims that Bryan Gould ‘ has arrogated to himself the exclusive right to speak for southern England middle income groups . ’
8 Having discovered for himself the great value of reading good books , he gave his writings to his people .
9 Trotsky set himself the dangerous task of explaining how not only the state but also the Party had come to be excessively bureaucratized .
10 He never doubts that it is possible or desirable for the critic to recreate in himself the mental condition of the author ; he only recognizes that it is difficult .
11 When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building .
12 It used to be thought that , when Offa was styled on occasion in the charters of the period rex Anglorum , this signified that he aspired to lordship over all the Anglo-Saxons or at least to make himself the only king south of the Humber .
13 Accordingly , in September 1854 Britain dispatched an expeditionary field force to the Persian port of Bushire , with Rigby as interpreter and , later , superintendent of police — with himself the only policeman in the town .
14 Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt .
15 Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction .
16 The awful thing was that all this time Lewis had never had any doubts he was himself the new owner of Wyvis Hall .
17 The Shah went in there and paused in front of the graben image of the ruthless and brilliant army officer who had seized power in 1921 , and ended the Qajar dynasty , proclaimed himself the new Shah , the first of the Pahlavi dynasty , and begin to recreate Ira .
18 Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week
19 God created us for His own purposes , gave us free will to decide between good and evil , but retained unto Himself the ultimate decisions about the creation of life .
20 Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective .
21 He wraps around himself the dusty patchwork cloak of his invisibility and the heralds gallop hither and yon in vain .
22 A freelance musician has found himself the perfect practice room … an empty theatre which he has all to himself .
23 It seems reasonable to assume that Oswiu certainly brought into subjection to himself the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu ( between the Forth and the Tay ) , for Bridei , the son of Bili , king of Strathclyde , and Ecgfrith 's cousin ( HB ch. 57 ) , who became king of the Picts on the expulsion of Drest and later fought against Ecgfrith , is described specifically in the Irish annals as ‘ king of Fortriu ’ at his death in 692 ( AU s.a .
24 The American government has just brought out two new reports providing fresh evidence about the life and death of the man who called himself the sinful Messiah .
25 Duncan 's account is , in fact , a not unsympathetic one of Eliot punishing himself , denying himself the small pleasures or luxuries which someone of his wealth and distinction could have enjoyed : " He always took his wine flavoured with guilt " .
26 The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down .
27 With representatives arriving in Blackpool for today 's opening session of the most critical of Conservative conferences for many years , the former Cabinet minister finds himself the focal point for public and party disaffection with Mrs Thatcher .
28 He had tried out such individual projects himself the previous year when the resources first arrived , and the results were encouraging , so he was extending it : " having got more resources they were no longer all fighting over one or two books " .
29 Thanks to whoever it was , Baldwin by the spring of 1924 was making surprisingly good progress toward the political objectives which he had set himself the previous autumn .
30 SERVANT : My lady , a gentleman calling himself the noble Spaniard waits to see you .
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