Example sentences of "[noun prp] himself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1596 he published an edition of the Spanish version of Calvin 's Catechism ( 1559 ) , and one of the New Testament from the Spanish Bible of Basle ( 1569 ) , which was eventually followed by a revision of the whole Bible , printed in Amsterdam ( 1602 ) , and supervised there by Valera himself in his seventieth year . |
| 2 | To be sure you are Lucifer himself in the shape of my master or you could not use me thus , and I beg you 'll send me out of my way to my poor parents . |
| 3 | Sitting at peace with his ailing woman , tenderly responsive , he imagined his mouth curved in a mysterious smile ‘ like that of Rembrandt himself in his self-portrait in which Saskia is sitting on his knee and he has a glass of wine in his hand . ’ |
| 4 | Observers were divided over the role played by Chadli himself in this dramatic turn of events . |
| 5 | Mortimer 's estates were taken into the king 's hands , but , in contrast to his father in 1322 and Mortimer himself in 1327 , Edward did not immediately use the confiscated lands to underpin the power of another group of favourites . |
| 6 | In the early hours of Sunday 13 February 1692 , Captain Campbell , from a clan hostile to the Macdonalds , along with 120 of his soldiers , whom the Macdonalds had been entertaining for the previous fortnight , suddenly fell upon their hosts and butchered them , shooting Macdonald himself in the back and killing nearly 70 men , women and children . |
| 7 | Carole , who had fallen to the floor and was attempting to massage her husband 's knee , looked up to see Kenneth Baker himself in a camel-hair dressing gown , flanked by two men with guns . |
| 8 | The elderly admirer is Nestor himself in a false beard and Irma , who is clearly short sighted as well as dim and really nice , hardly notices the difference . |
| 9 | And appoint Dunbar himself in Seton 's place , to the castle-keepership . |
| 10 | Lamarck , and many of his contemporaries ( including Charles Darwin himself in the later stages of his life ) , supposed that repeated use of a trait could itself change the genetic material that was responsible for the transmission of that trait so that characters acquired or improved by repeated use could be inherited directly by the offspring . |
| 11 | Often , but by no means invariably , the medreses involved were imperial foundations , such as the medrese of Suleyman 's mother , Hafsa Sultan , in Manisa ( 929/1523 ) ; the medreses of Suleyman himself in Rhodes ( 956/1549 ) and Damascus ( 973/1566 ) ; and that of Selim II on the newly-conquered island of Cyprus ( 978–9/1570–1 ) . |
| 12 | Ceolwulf left England himself in 796 in the company of the bishop of London ( ASC A , s.a. 794 ) but whether to go on pilgrimage or into exile is not known and he died the same year ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) . |
| 13 | A comely pair , resembling Lexandro himself in countenance … |
| 14 | Prosecution attorneys argued that these plea bargains and inducements were little different from procedures followed to obtain convictions of other " kingpin " drugs traffickers , including Lehder himself in 1988 . |
| 15 | Charlie completely blotted the great man out of the match and , with this vital piece of their armoury missing , Tottenham were nonplussed and the Palace went on to win with two goals scored by Billy Morgan , who had joined the club as part of the same complex deal as Cross himself in 1922 . |
| 16 | It may be worth noting that Heath himself in another article extends his time-scale further back to include the reforms of the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | If necessary he would walk to Lenin himself in Moscow . |
| 18 | She wanted to tell her that perhaps the plan — the dark colours , the new name — was n't necessary any more , that there was an awareness between herself and Tom today that almost made her believe he did share her feelings , but with Tom himself in the room , and Bill as well , and Mrs Porter coming in now with Faye 's mid-afternoon snack and a pot of tea for everyone , there was clearly no opportunity . |
| 19 | The contrast between the two kings was ruefully noted by Louis himself in a remark he made to Walter Map : |
| 20 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 21 | Goody and Watt , and Goody himself in later developments of these ideas , lay great store on the example of classical Greece . |
| 22 | The court said that it was not intended in Seymour to cast doubt on Venna which had used the Cunningham definition ( but was pre-Caldwell ) , and Venna was approved in DPP v Majewski [ 1977 ] AC 443 and seemingly by Lord Diplock himself in Caldwell . |
| 23 | Following upon the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , a whole succession of English bishops had been publishing this legislation and adding to it their own diocesan statutes ; Pecham himself in 1281 drew upon the legislation of two archbishops — Langton ( 1222 ) and Boniface ( 1261 ) — and two papal legates — Otto ( 1237 ) and Ottobuono ( 1268 ) . |
| 24 | Samuel Pipkin , eagerness all over his face , had bounded up to the reading desk , arranged to look identical to that used by Dickens himself in his tours around the country . |
| 25 | Two years later Dan Gurney ( USA ) provided the team with its first victory when he won the French Grand Prix with Brabham himself in third place . |
| 26 | In the 1986 film Round Midnight he starred as a jazz musician who , like Gordon himself in the Sixties , sought refuge in Europe . |
| 27 | In each of these forms , the Word is the Word insofar and only insofar as God really expresses and communicates himself through it ; and the special task of Christian dogmatics is to refer the present proclamation of Jesus Christ back to its original ground in God himself in order to clear away distortions and misrepresentations so that the Word itself can be heard afresh in its own integrity . |
| 28 | He tried in vain to misdirect Christ himself in the wilderness ( Matthew 4 ) . |
| 29 | Work began on the bridge in 1836 , with Brunel himself in charge , but money ran out after four years and the project was abandoned . |
| 30 | So it is a relief , occasionally , to get a quotation from such as Gilbert White , who , in one paragraph about the hard frost of 1784 , sparkles like Jack himself in such even-toned and worthy surroundings . |