Example sentences of "himself [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , I asked , did he find it acceptable for an artist to have to put up with the paltry sums of money he offered when he himself lived in such style ? |
| 2 | ‘ It is a humiliating thought , but true , ’ wrote one of them , the educational reformer J. H. Pestalozzi , ‘ that any advance in the good leadership of people must proceed from the cabinets of monarchs ’ ; and he himself acted on this thought by offering his services to the Habsburg emperors Joseph II and Leopold II . |
| 3 | Charlie found himself waiting in another queue before coming face to face with the sergeant again . |
| 4 | He 'll find himself going into some supermarket in Praed Street , buying fillets of plaice and frozen broccoli for her sons ' dinner … |
| 5 | Every civil servant finds himself entrusted with this kind of inheritance . |
| 6 | He side-slipped to miss three tightly spiralling planes , and found himself drifting into another cluster . |
| 7 | Darwin himself contributed to this trend by bringing back fossils from the voyage of the Beagle showing that the past inhabitants of South America were closely related to the modern ones . |
| 8 | Gorbachev himself contributed to this task in an extended statement , ‘ The socialist idea and revolutionary perestroika' , which appeared in Pravda in November 1989 . |
| 9 | Albeit with certain symbolic variations , Jesus himself conforms to this pattern . |
| 10 | McLeish found himself shocked by this piece of feminine sharpness and must have registered something because his sergeant blushed . |
| 11 | However , God Himself dealt with that barrier when God the Son , Jesus Christ , came to earth and sacrifice Himself on the Cross of Calvary to pay the penalty for the sins of others . |
| 12 | Sidgwick himself settles without much ado for total welfare . |
| 13 | Max Weber was an ardent nationalist whose political sociology was guided by the principle of the ‘ primacy of the interests of the nation state ’ , which he enunciated vigorously in his inaugural lecture at Freiburg in 1895 ; but he did not set himself to examine with any thoroughness the grounds of such ‘ primacy ’ . |
| 14 | The fluency with which he himself wrote about this period was born out of a particular requirement . |
| 15 | They are submissive but dignified , with that look of yearning that brings to mind Ehrenburg 's comment that Modigliani saw all his subjects as lost children : his own Jeanne , Zborowski , and perhaps most of all , although he would never admit it , he himself come into that category . |