Example sentences of "himself took the " in BNC.

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1 Another disc started , Herr Hocher placing it on the record-player with his own hands , the result being a foxtrot played by a Russian orchestra , and he himself took the floor with Fräulein Renn , the pair of them going through what seemed to the young people weirdly funny gyrations together .
2 Then he ordered Ram to serve out the reddest shot he could find in the furnace , watched it loaded and , motioning the pensioners back , himself took the portfire and touched it to the vent .
3 Wheeler himself took the head of the table with the Bishop on his right and the Archdeacon next to him .
4 Thomas , who testified first , vehemently denied Hill 's charges and himself took the offensive against liberal Democrats for allowing his reputation to be destroyed in public hearings , televised to the world .
5 He assisted Edmund Ironside against Cnut , but died and was buried in Hereford , while the Ironside himself took the sister of a Welsh king , and received the support of the Welsh beyond Severn from Lancaster to Malvern .
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