Example sentences of "was himself [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately Glam was himself bested by the GHOST and he , too , became a surly and violent ‘ walker after death ’ . |
| 2 | Explaining this popularity is not difficult : Edmund was himself killed by the Danes , and it was perhaps only natural that veneration for him should grow in the area which had formed his kingdom , and seen a great deal of the renewed conflict between Danes and English . |
| 3 | Justin Lekhanya , who seized power in 1986 from the then Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan , was himself led into the studio of Radio Lesotho by troops on April 30 and made to broadcast his own resignation as Chairman of the six-member ruling Military Council . |
| 4 | Macdonald was himself expelled from the country , while Lin Jie was imprisoned for his alleged ‘ treason ’ . |
| 5 | At the end of September 1949 , therefore , Smith was himself seconded to the BEA to work on sorting out this problem , and he was in fact to stay , in a sustained attempt to work out a better contracts system , thus further strengthening the BEA 's management of the construction programme . |
| 6 | Robinson established a close relationship with Monck and was himself returned to the Convention Parliament for London . |
| 7 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 8 | As a result of this he was labelled as a diehard and a bigot , when he actually distrusted the diehards and was himself distrusted by the bigots . |
| 9 | Benedict , at less than ten years of age , was himself delivered into the care of the mother he had not seen for almost two years . |