Example sentences of "himself [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having discovered for himself the great value of reading good books , he gave his writings to his people . |
| 2 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 3 | Monty , my former editor and himself a great friend of Caroline 's father , proposed the health of the Bride and Groom . |
| 4 | Damon Hill produced the performance he had dreamed of to give himself a great chance of finishing on the victory podium at the Brazilian Grand Prix . |
| 5 | But by joining the ‘ Carry On ’ team he was not necessarily doing himself a great favour . |
| 6 | The lure of live music-making is , of course , irresistible : the sense of occasion , of which Karajan was himself a great provider , the throng of music-madded fans and aficionados , not to mention that bear-baiting element Glenn Gould was always so amusing about , as soloists are led out and put to their instruments before the attentive crowd . |
| 7 | She stayed in work until she was 29 walking out for five years with her fiance , an engineer 's blacksmith who was himself a great reader , while they saved up to marry . |
| 8 | Now Pound has interested himself a great deal in the order of the Templars , to which Pierre of Castillon belonged . |
| 9 | Mr Flood was silent and blessed himself a great deal when he heard the news . |
| 10 | The student who is confident in his library skills has a basis of trust upon which to build — and he will save himself a great deal of humiliation as well as precious time ( a commodity his teachers are themselves equally short of ) . |
| 11 | We got here just in the right season , and I assure you he has already shown himself a great enemy to the feathered tribe , having shot a great many beautiful birds and robbed various others of their nests and eggs . |