Example sentences of "[noun sg] himself [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | On occasions , after a programme , he would slip into the empty studio , seat himself at the grand piano and play — mostly chords and nothing recognizable . |
2 | Sloan no slouch himself in the cantankerous department was not of much help . |
3 | James Lee Byars , who is no slouch himself in the mystical department , deploys white marble balls at Mary Boone ( until the 25th ) . |
4 | At 32 Rue St Honoré , they met with Raymond Eddi , a distinguished Lebanese parliamentarian in exile , and Marcel Boutros , Aoun 's personal envoy , who invited Coleman to meet the general himself at the presidential palace in Baabda . |
5 | He says in the autobiography erm my view was that every president was a and this was a famous phrase every president was a steward of the people , a steward of the people , bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin curious turn of phrase I decline he says to adopt the view that what is imperatively necessary for the nation can not be done unless the president can find some specific authorization to do it in the constitution . |
6 | Ewart last made the news himself during the Soviet coup in August 1991 . |
7 | Darwin brought not only animals but man himself into the evolutionary scheme . |
8 | The minister 's assessment of the scientific data , like that of Gwyneth Dunwoody , a Labour MP , was aptly described by the Minister himself in the parliamentary debate of 27 January 1983 . |