Example sentences of "[noun sg] himself [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her little brother took to the instrument himself at the age of four , and soon learnt some of Nannerl 's pieces . |
| 2 | I 've got two of them , the other one 's er cut himself on a bottle this morning , he 's been in the vE T all day , he 's just had |
| 3 | There is no need to change this law , and as far as I am aware no need for Mr. Byran to distress himself upon the umpires ' behalf . |
| 4 | It is quite clear against the background that I have described that it was intended that it should be an exceptional power and that it should be used only when there are no other ways in which the individual applicant may consider the case himself through the planning process . |
| 5 | Carter had been no mean personal campaigner himself in the past , but by 1980 his situation had changed fundamentally . |
| 6 | See Martin Sheen drunkenly method act himself into a heart attack , watch made Marlon improvise pure nonsense out of thin air and discover the real-life Dennis Hopper to be more manic than his character . |
| 7 | During his stay , he set to work himself on the principle divide et impera . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , it was , ’ Athelstan replied , though he remembered he had not asked that question himself at the time . |
| 9 | aware that had a criminal record himself as the department said . |
| 10 | Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry . |
| 11 | Lord Elphinstone had to content himself with the duke 's assurance that he ‘ would mention to those who mannage my affairs my being honoured with a letter from your Lordship & recommend unanimity upon this occasion … which I hope will be an inducement to the commissioners of supply to settle without varience ’ . |
| 12 | He had to content himself with the fact that it was mostly a one-way affair . |
| 13 | Now he has to content himself with the fact that the only replica of a Captain Cook ship he has been involved in was one built for the new shopping centre in Middlesbrough eight years ago . |
| 14 | Indeed MacArthur was concerned almost wholly with the culmination to his four-year struggle against the Japanese and was determined to accept the formal surrender himself as a prelude to his new role as the reformer of Japanese society . |
| 15 | Failure of heirs , or the survival only of heiresses , was exploited by the king himself for the benefit of his own sons , who expected endowments and titles as befitted their rank and who by virtue of their birth played a leading part in aristocratic society . |
| 16 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 17 | ‘ They say he would beat up the devil himself for a shilling , ’ replied Barney . |
| 18 | You know me , I run with the hare an' hunt with the hounds : I 'd suck up to the devil himself for a penny . ’ |
| 19 | He was their only guest and of course her father had given him the ‘ big room ’ — used by the landlord himself in the winter . |
| 20 | She 'd wondered who 'd handle that side of it somehow she could n't imagine the night manager himself with a housekeeping trolley piled high with sheets and towels . |
| 21 | Gilbey , who has been her greatest emotional support since the collapse of her marriage to Prince Charles , broke the news himself in a telephone call to Kensington Palace . |
| 22 | No action was taken against the newspaper , however , and one journalist , who had taken legal advice himself over the story , steadfastly maintained that he had quoted Nick Clayton 's comments completely accurately . |
| 23 | Milestone discovered that he did n't even have to yell ‘ Cut ’ because Brando would give the signal himself for the cameras to stop turning . |
| 24 | The co-existence of opposite feelings experienced by a spectator during a performance of tragedy is shared by the tragic artist himself Despite the pleasure he finds in appearances , he negates it for the higher satisfaction of their destruction . |
| 25 | Moreover , by bringing man himself into a scheme of biological evolution , it abolished the sharp line between natural and human or social sciences . |
| 26 | Now the advent of the man himself into a classroom caused something of a sensation , even if it was under cover . |
| 27 | His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes . |
| 28 | ‘ Unlike most rock bands that will do practically anything to become controversial , ’ drawls the man himself before the show , ‘ our main focus is to keep controversy down . |
| 29 | The reason is that it is based , not on discernible facts , but on stories and writings that have been created by man himself in an era of his history obtaining long before he had learned that , if he were so minded , he could use his intellectual power to establish facts on which to build the structure , not only of his religion , but of the whole of his society . |
| 30 | Watching the old gentleman turn himself into a stripling and seeing the irrepressible signs of affection between George and Catherine , he envied them deeply . |