Example sentences of "[noun prp] himself [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Valera himself resisted right-wing pressures to enhance the role of the church in the Irish state and successfully opposed tendencies to fascism apparent in Irish paramilitary movements of the thirties ( Manning 1970 ) . |
| 2 | Koons himself inspires great unease and deeply ambivalent feelings . |
| 3 | Harnack himself defended that development as necessary for the survival of Christian faith in the ancient Graeco-Roman world , but believed it must now be transcended , for it brought with it the immense danger of transforming the original and authentic gospel of love preached and exemplified by Jesus into abstract intellectual formulae , of confusing the husk with the kernel . |
| 4 | By 1086 , Droitwich salt was being widely distributed over the Midlands ; King William himself had eighty-five salt pans here . |
| 5 | Minton himself visited this show and in the visitors book left the comment , ‘ Fair to Middleditch ’ . |
| 6 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 7 | Darwin himself illustrates this combination . |
| 8 | Between 1903 and 1912 local activists prevented the outright split in the party to which émigré divisions were leading , Lenin himself faced powerful challenges from within the Bolshevik faction , notably from Bogdanov , and he came close to losing control altogether . |
| 9 | At this stage , the Shah himself had little idea what was being planned , Indeed , he even suspected the British of conspiring with Mossadeq against him . |
| 10 | It is doubtful whether Kierkegaard himself held this view , certainly by the time of his last and great work Concluding Unscientific Postscript , where he insisted that ‘ faith must not rest content with unintelligibility ’ . |
| 11 | Degas himself showed little interest in casting the waxes into bronze , though three sculptures were made into trial plasters and a similar fate was considered for the ‘ Little dancer ’ . |
| 12 | Harry himself scored 53 League goals for Palace and two in the FA Cup ; how many he laid on for other forwards we can only guess at . |
| 13 | His becoming a British subject put his Spanish goods at risk , and Oliver Cromwell himself took extraordinary precautions to ensure that they could be spirited out of the country and sent to England . |
| 14 | Atkinson himself favours this second approach and contrasts it with direct taxation ( a tax on total income or expenditure with varying marginal rates ) by considering what he calls ‘ transitional ’ taxes . |
| 15 | Malcolm himself died 21 December 1953 at 8 Evelyn Mansions , Carlisle Place , London SW1 . |
| 16 | Indeed , does not Locke himself raise this objection when he asks why ‘ one intellectual substance may not have represented to it , as done by itself , what it never did , and was perhaps done by some other agent ’ ? |
| 17 | Mayne himself claimed twenty-four aircraft and some bomb and petrol dumps destroyed . |
| 18 | David Lodge himself adapted NICE WORK as a four part serial for the BBC , broadcast in the autumn of 1989 . |
| 19 | Pembroke himself spent three years -in captivity , and although he was ransomed in 1375 he died soon afterwards of an illness worsened by the rigours of his imprisonment . |
| 20 | In 1989 Nicholas Ridley himself denounced European standards for water as ‘ ridiculous , extravagant and unnecessary ’ . |
| 21 | It would have been more sensible to reduce the period span of the book , especially as Eccleshall himself acknowledges that Conservatism in its recognizably ‘ modern ’ form did not emerge until the early nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Burton himself had several versions : ‘ I was supposed to play Paul Scofield 's older friend , ’ he said , ‘ but how can anyone … he looks a hundred and eight to begin with . ’ |
| 23 | At the same time , his company was closely involved with the beginnings of public broadcasting in Britain , though Marconi himself left this work to his engineers . |
| 24 | Hindley himself died six months after his sister Catherine . |
| 25 | But now suddenly he came out with it violently , almost in the manner of Hotspur himself over-riding some constraint that tied his tongue : |
| 26 | A fine example of Egyptian art of the 18th Dynasty , Carter himself thought this piece important and drew attention to it in the catalogue that he compiled for the Amherst sale . |
| 27 | Frederick himself showed this contempt , in writing and conversation , with an often brutal lack of restraint , especially as he became soured by decades of effort and struggle . |
| 28 | Reluctant tithe-payers were threatened with excommunication and sequestration , and pour encourager les autres Winchelsey himself advanced 300 horses and a loan of –8000 to the king . |
| 29 | Leapor is here parting company with conventional love poetry , leaving that to others who have ‘ a softer Pen ’ ; Swift himself gives some space to describing wedding festivities , though the bitter revelation is expected shortly . |
| 30 | While it is unlikely that Dom Pérignon himself employed such methods , it is more than probable that others did . |