Example sentences of "[noun sg] itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since they had known one another , Otto had been kindness itself to Jean-Claude . |
| 2 | She has always been kindness itself to me , but I have a feeling in my bones that she would not regard me as a wholly reliable supporter . |
| 3 | On the other hand he was kindness itself to Andrew 's mother-in-law . |
| 4 | The nuns were kindness itself to Leonora . |
| 5 | When he 'd appeared with her breakfast Penry Vaughan had been reasonably friendly — and in the middle of the night he 'd been kindness itself after her nightmare . |
| 6 | It did n't seem likely : the first floor was in the roof itself with sloping outside walls and few places to hang pictures . |
| 7 | ‘ Allegory ’ would after all imply , to Tolkien ( see pp. 33–7 above ) , that The Lord of the Rings had only one meaning , which would have to remain constant all the way through ; he toyed contemptuously with the notion in the ‘ Foreword ’ as he sketched out a plan for his work as a real allegory with the Ring itself as president Truman 's atomic bomb . |
| 8 | These volcanic plugs , from North Berwick Law on the Forth estuary and the Bass Rock in the firth itself to Castle Rock in Edinburgh , provided early tribes with natural defensive sites . |
| 9 | This in turn opens up some fascinating questions about the role of consciousness itself in memory and perception . |
| 10 | It may not be ready to unburden itself before NT ships . |
| 11 | Yet it did not generally solve the problem of keeping labour itself at work , loyally , diligently and modestly . |
| 12 | I 'd say — and interrogate me in the cell itself with shouted , rapid-fire questions , punctuated by slaps in the face and , just once , hair-pulling . |
| 13 | The British Government in London , the Administration itself in Egypt , was committed to Progress . |
| 14 | Areas of application — from the computing industry itself to traditional industries which have been liberated from routine to the new technology — continue to proliferate . |
| 15 | Understanding the advertising business inside out is vital , for it is they who must be aware of all the numerous restraints imposed , not only by the advertising industry itself through the Advertising Standards Authority and The Independent Television Companies Association ( ITCA ) , but also by the manufacturers of products in sensitive areas . |
| 16 | Yeah there 's been a , a , a big change in the industry itself in |
| 17 | When considering the weight or strength of the reasons for an action , the reasons for the rule can not be added to the rule itself as additional reasons . |
| 18 | In the period beginning just before the punk explosion and ending around 1982 , the rock press played a decisive part in the making and shaping of a succession of trends from punk itself to Two-Tone , the so-called new pop phase and the emergence of quasi-mystical underground acts like Echo and the Bunnymen . |
| 19 | Only she did n't need to think about it , not really , not about the lovemaking itself at any rate — it was indelibly printed on her mind in glorious Technicolor . |
| 20 | We sit upon our bed with a roll of foil , several bars of chocolate and the hardback edition of a Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective ( nicked from Dillons ) upon which he lays a tube and a neat square of foil flattened by his own deft fingers and the gear itself in its cosy half-inch envelope . |
| 21 | Jameson seems to object to the fall of modernism and the decline of a critical aesthetic , and fails to learn from the quite genuine failure of modernism itself with regard to its popular acceptability . |
| 22 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 23 | At Dunadd the carvers made use of fissures in the rock itself as their base line . |
| 24 | It involves bringing the piece itself before a Committee of State experts ; they declare its value and charge 100% Custom fees . |
| 25 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 26 | The steadying windvane is a help , and the alternative triangular frame idea shows a way of using weight itself as a stabilising force . |
| 27 | But we get away from the Crucifixion itself with this third panel . |
| 28 | In the shorter version there are no preliminary prayers recorded and the formal prayer structure which introduces the opening events of the Passion story ( as in the long version ) is early abandoned in the account of the crucifixion itself in favour of an uninterrupted meditation on Christ 's Passion with which the observer is closely identified at many levels . |
| 29 | It may take innumerable forms , such as scratching the panel of a coach , removing a tyre from a car , or the car itself from a garage , or , in the case of animals , beating or killing them . |
| 30 | This is done within the programme itself by using very restricted examples of language and by recycling these examples through the programme and through the course in a range of different short scenes . |