Example sentences of "himself [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was himself the first discoverer of that ‘ morbidity of temperament ’ . |
| 2 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 3 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 4 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And the Rechem case comes to Scotland as the Judge sees for himself the former factory . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He accounted himself the unluckiest man alive . |
| 11 | An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question . |
| 12 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |
| 13 | He could at any time have obtained for himself the beneficial enjoyment of the whole income . |
| 14 | Robert Kilroy-Silk claims that Bryan Gould ‘ has arrogated to himself the exclusive right to speak for southern England middle income groups . ’ |
| 15 | Having discovered for himself the great value of reading good books , he gave his writings to his people . |
| 16 | Trotsky set himself the dangerous task of explaining how not only the state but also the Party had come to be excessively bureaucratized . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 21 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It will be on every player 's mind when he stands on the tee to give himself the best chance of an uphill putt , whether it be from that tee shot or a subsequent approach . |
| 25 | While Sarazen felt ‘ the biggest heel in the world ’ , he also knew he had to give himself the best chance of winning the Open ; and that , regrettably , could not be achieved with his old caddie Dan . |
| 26 | He 'll prove himself the best fighter in the world because the WBC 's main contender Tony Tucker and WBO champion Mike Moorer , a really dangerous customer , are waiting in the wings . |
| 27 | Voltaire , an altogether more sympathetic figure , who incidentally used to serve himself the best Burgundy while giving his guests vin ordinaire , observed in one of his philosophical tales that la lune de miel is followed the next month by la lune de l'absinthe . ] ) |
| 28 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The omnipotence of the House of Commons , ’ he wrote , ‘ is revolution itself and death to the true old English constitution ’ — of which he fancied himself the best judge . |
| 30 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |