Sentence examples for himself preferably from inspiring English sources

Artistic activity was frowned on by the former elder of the Kirk (Banda did his training in Scotland), who only wanted to see graven images of himself, preferably on the printed dresses of the ululating women he liked to have dancing round.

It is an advantage for students if the lecturer is an engineer himself preferably with a long attachment in the industry.

Upon Nicholson's arrival in London in August, he outlined the situation in New York to the king and the Lords of Trade, urging the appointment of a new governor of New York, preferably himself.

He could never stop talking about what was wrong in the world and how it could be fixed, preferably by himself.

Miami won the title with a small lineup last spring, but Heat officials were always looking for a big man in Andersen's mold, preferably Andersen himself.

"I could not be happier," says Mr. Tancredo, a conservative immigration hawk who wants to publicize the issue, preferably with himself as a spokesman.

Saleh was desperate to find a way to rid himself of the militants, preferably without calling in American airstrikes or doing anything else that would alienate the radical clerics on whose political support he counted.

The best pranks are the ones where the recipient laughs at himself or herself, or preferably, at the situation.

These transitions will allow you to get your horse's haunches underneath himself, stepping in or preferably in front of the footprint that he has just left with his front feet.

The team wanted to make a replica of an organ from the high Baroque, preferably one that Bach himself had played.

He asked GMHC coordinator Susan Rowley for a buddy who was a gay man and preferably African American like himself.