Example sentences of "[noun prp] himself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his black garb , Italianate features and fearsome reputation , Sir Edmund must appear as Master Lucifer himself to the peasants of Templecombe Manor . |
| 2 | Perhaps you even bear a secret claim by King Edward himself to be ruler of Scotland ! ’ |
| 3 | The collection totals 360 items and is exceptionally diverse , ranging from forty-two works by Epstein himself to a number of outstanding paintings and drawings : William Blake ‘ The Humility of the Saviour ’ ; van Gogh ‘ Sorrow ’ , a drawing of 1882 ; Monet ‘ Le chemin creux dans la falaise a Varangeville ’ , oil on canvas ; Degas , ‘ Portrait de Marguerite , soeur de l'artiste ’ , oil on canvas , circa 1860–65 ; Lucien Freud ‘ Portrait of Kitty ’ , oil on board , 1948–49 and three other works by Freud ; Gericault , a nude figure study ; Constable , a cloud study ; Turner , watercolour of Carlisle , as well as Egyptian , Greek , Roman , Middle Eastern and gothic works of art . |
| 4 | They are to be ‘ submissive ’ to men 's love and service , and as such to enable and empower it — as the Holy Spirit , ‘ incarnate by grace ’ in saved humanity , enables and empowers Christ himself to ‘ fulfil his divine ministry among his creatures . ’ |
| 5 | The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day . |
| 6 | The luckless hero of Waugh 's Brideshead ends tragically without wife , mistress or home ; but he has followed Waugh himself to Rome and its consoling faith , and at mass an altar-flame burns for him in his soul ‘ farther in heart than Acre or Jerusalem ’ . |