Example sentences of "[conj] himself a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 2 | The leader of this , the draper John Northampton , although himself a member of one of the greatest companies , joined forces with the lesser guilds to try to break the control of a small group of dominant capitalists , particularly those in the victualling guilds of the fishmongers , grocers and vintners . |
| 3 | Eustace Loder , the prime mover of the Stewards ' objection , was said to have a personal grudge against Craganour 's owner Ismay , who in any case was far from universally popular : the son of the founder of the White Star Line , whose greatest ship the Titanic had gone down on its maiden voyage in 1912 with the loss of 1,517 lives , and himself a passenger on that fateful voyage , his survival did not endear him to the public . |
| 4 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 5 | Chain was the son of a Russo-German industrial chemist and himself a Ph.D . |
| 6 | However , I kept trying and with the help of Mr Norman Tebbit , our then junior minister and himself a former airline pilot , the project went through . |
| 7 | The son of the legendary Derek and himself a former Gloucestershire player , Shackleton also took 5 for 13 to bowl out Cheshire for 80 in their second innings as they lost to Dorset at Dorchester . |
| 8 | Monty , my former editor and himself a great friend of Caroline 's father , proposed the health of the Bride and Groom . |
| 9 | , John Robert Daniel ( 1920–1974 ) , Royal Air Force pilot , was born at The Manse , Holcombe , Somerset , 6 April 1920 , the only son ( there was also a daughter ) of the Revd Ernest Goodall Braham , author , and himself a Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I , and his wife , Ethel Randall . |
| 10 | Rolt was distantly related to Kyrle Willans , the son of Peter Willans , inventor of the enclosed vertical central valve steam engine , and himself a mechanical engineer . |
| 11 | The Marechal de Saxe , one of the best-known military theorists of the century and himself a highly successful commander , thought the ‘ acting body ’ of an army should not exceed 46,000 men , ‘ for multitudes serve only to perplex and embarrass ’ . |
| 12 | The Soviet turn-around was underlined a by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kovalev , co-chairman of the Soviet delegation and himself a former political prisoner , who spoke of violations in his country and current efforts to rectify them . |
| 13 | A statement made by Daniel McPhee , the travellers ' spokesman and himself a former traveller agrees with what the police super . |
| 14 | Christopher Gore , the son of a nuclear scientist and himself a brilliant academic , waited patiently to be let in to Bristol Crown Court , where he was to be accused of killing his father and his mother . |
| 15 | Colin McEachran , the council vice-chairman and himself a former Games shooting silver medallist , said : ‘ We 're aiming the appeal at the whole spectrum of Scottish life . |