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himself

Third person masuline singular reflexive pronoun. He went by himself to the store.

himself

(reflexive pronoun) Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject (emphatic) He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate (Ireland, otherwise, _, archaic) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself. (emphatic, exclusive) he

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Simple sentences

The seven questions that an engineer has to ask himself are: who, what, when, where, why, how and how much.
Each man stood up in turn and introduced himself.
Tom awoke to find himself in a strange room.
Tom hurt himself.
The fisherman saved himself by means of a floating board.
And then he sat down himself.
His wife being out, he cooked dinner for himself.
I spoke to the principal himself.
He likes taking a walk by himself.
He didn't know how to express himself.
In washing himself, he started on the legs.
The old man lived there by himself.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Tom likes taking walks by himself.
Johnson is a recluse; he prefers to isolate himself from the rest of the students in our class.
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
No thing is impossible for one who has no need to do it himself.
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or a picture or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Romeo, believing that Juliet was dead, decided to kill himself.
Mary asked her son to behave himself.
The manager blamed himself for the failure.
But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.
He insured himself for a rainy day.
Bob gave Tina almost all the stamps he had collected, and kept only a few for himself.
Hasn't he looked at himself in a mirror?
He cut himself free with his knife.
Bob was beside himself with joy.
He seated himself on the bench.
He laid himself on the bed.
The teacher told me that Hitler killed himself.

Movie subtitles

Henry V himself became King at the age of 26, and was dead from dysentery by 35 - a reminder, by the way, that most history is made by young people.
In 1 644, the last Ming emperor hanged himself out of shame.
It's a letter from the emperor himself.
However, Declan always called himself Colonel Moutarde.
So he headed north and reinvented himself.
Well, Hayley was away, Evan had the place to himself.
But we're dealing with a guy who went to extraordinary lengths to disguise himself.
Well, Evan could never bring himself to accept that he'd moved on from his dead wife.
He could've saved himself a lot of pain if he explained that at the beginning.
He's coping well with that and can feed himself using his feet, which is quite the party piece.
He was trying to throw suspicion off of himself.
Yeah, I'm not really the kind of guy that likes to talk about himself too much.
And it would be of great benefit to a man like yourself, a man who needs to learn to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Ah, well, he put himself there.
It was this big achievement that lead Kapteyn to first distinguish himself at that time.
He threw himself into everything, while I, the good Jesuit student, weighed the pros and cons for so long, I'd never decide.
He works for himself, not you!
Napoleon III came to Algeria twice to proclaim himself King of the Arabs.
He's hanging himself!
And he himself.
He himself keeps away.
And this fool Salvago, after he cultivated on his land blooms of vice and poisonous plants of sin. he gives up the land and himself and you?
For me. me who hates himself, who flees from himself, who banished the mirrors out of his rooms!
A nobleman who called himself Menaldo Negroni.
He shows himself as a nightmare, a raging demon, a seducer, a lover, and a knight.
I found his hiding place deep within the torture chambers where he himself was confined during the second Revolution.
So he needs to, you know, solidify his pack and to make himself stronger.
I think he is all about building an army to protect himself from the hunters.
In season two, Derek's goal is really to, you know, solidify his pack and to make himself stronger.
There have been multiple instances of him sitting on a bench alone and talking to himself.
Josef presents himself to Quaker.
At night that same Nosferatu digs his claws into his victims and suckles himself on the hellish elixir of their bloode.
The logs piled up right above the waterfall-- if only he could use one of them to save himself.
It was mid-morning before Schweisser dragged himself home- to face his daughter.
He was himself again.
Old Deep River himself, eh?
My dear, I can't tell you how sorry I am. but I hope with all my heart that Jekyll will have something to say for himself.

News and current affairs

He was then told to identify himself.
With a dispassionate eye on the long game, what will the president himself be thinking?
Positioning himself as the candidate who represents a sharp break with today's unpopular politics is the only means to escape that fate.
Strong economic performance is somewhat surprising, given his party's interventionist policy approach, but Meles showed himself to be a consummate pragmatist in attracting investment - particularly from China - to drive growth.
As far as we know, Kundera never was an informer before or after this incident, and we cannot ignore that he later freed himself from the compulsory totalitarian happiness that communism propagated.
His comments infuriated London's provocative mayor, Boris Johnson, himself a classics scholar and author, who shot back that Clooney's position on the issue was similar to that of the Nazis portrayed in his film.
But to say that, one must also assume that to some extent he himself is unbalanced and has shifted from a kind of guerilla warfare against the West, always with some possibility of retreat, to all-out combat.
Like Samson in the temple of Gaza, he wishes to destroy himself in a public act of violence, taking as many people as possible with him.
McCain is a man of strong traditional values who prides himself on his willingness to act quickly and decisively, which he sought to do during the negotiations on the bailout by suspending his campaign to return to Washington.
But McCain has shown himself to be resilient.
The US then backed Saddam Hussein in his attack on Iran, until the US ended up attacking Saddam himself.
President George W. Bush has been skirting the question ever since he committed himself to an immigration agreement with Mexico when he visited President Vicente Fox in Guanajuato almost exactly five years ago.
One of President Clinton's problems, they said, was that the ceremonial portions of the job bored him - and thus he got himself into big trouble.
Djindjic himself narrowly escaped a highway assassination attempt only last month.
The implication, encouraged by the regime, was that Kaltho was a recruit of mine who blew himself up while preparing his next bomb in a campaign of terror aimed at Sanni Abacha's dictatorship.
By the time the next presidential term starts in January 2013, and contrary to the current narratives advanced by the Obama and Romney campaigns, the incumbent will find himself with limited room for maneuver on economic policy.
Obama confined himself to promoting the pending bilateral agreements with Colombia and other emerging-market countries.
Indeed, Abdullah, who believes himself to be the paramount leader of the Muslim world, is the first Saudi king to initiate a meeting with a leader of the Christian faith.
He has committed himself to the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons and acknowledges the link between nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament by the nuclear-weapon states.
This year Madi may grow even less cotton, even though the crop is the main source of income for himself, his two wives and his five children.
Having attended secondary school himself, he believes that his children will better their lives through education.
Similarly, Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi exposed himself to a NATO onslaught by relinquishing his WMDs.
In other words, Hiatt finds fault with himself and his organization for saying the right thing, but not loudly enough.

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