Example sentences of "[noun sg] himself by " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the afternoon of the 7th , to the accompaniment of barrages enveloping the whole sector that seemed to reach a crescendo of fury , the Germans captured the whole of the Bois des Corbeaux ; including the wounded Colonel of the 211th , saved no doubt from savage disgrace himself by a spirited last-ditch defence . |
| 2 | It would be a different tale if they were in the king 's own shoes , for he 's a marcher lord himself by reason of his Bohun marriage , and when Wales is in question he thinks like a marcher lord , and there 's an end of it . |
| 3 | His Landlord , designing profit himself by it , by raising his rent or otherwise proposing to turn him out . |
| 4 | The man they follow was a fine storyteller himself by all accounts — and there is no question they have some very good basic material . ’ |
| 5 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |