1.   He sounded more like his old self than the last time she had called.

2.   He watched her closely, to see if she was her old good self, and she was-except for one new thing.

3.   His old self would have scorned such sentimentality.

4.   If I thought I could unmake my old self so easily I was a fool.

5.   In the second act, the specialist treating Selma puts her on an experimental drug that returns her to her old self.

6.   Jim was beginning to feel like his old self again.

7.   Only Lewis, unshakeable symbol of dependability, stays his old self.

8.   The new clothes became a clever foil for his old self.

9.   Those who know her say the actress is transformed from a care-worn recluse into her old vivacious self.

10.   Jake sat back in his chair, his fingers toying with the glass paperweight, yet looking totally composed again, back to his old self.