Example sentences of "i tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I left the council , I worked for the council for ten years and then I stopped the council in nineteen forty six for I I telled you that afore have I . |
| 2 | ‘ Keep your mouth shut , ’ I told myself . |
| 3 | ‘ Head back into town , ’ I told myself . |
| 4 | I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him . |
| 5 | ‘ I told myself ‘ Do n't rush , do n't rush ’ , ’ he said , but evidently he was not listening . |
| 6 | Only two and a half hours more to go , I told myself , and fixed the old lady with a hard stare that I hoped somehow conveyed to her what pleasure , what deep and lasting pleasure , it would give me to haul her off her seat and push her out the window . |
| 7 | Although upright and looking much younger than her years , she seemed to have changed a great deal from when I had seen her last , and she wore a slightly dazed expression ( as well she might , I told myself , considering her age and the difficulty of her situation ) . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , I told myself , the success of Aunt Louise and me living together hung on such fragile things as unselfishness and the making of adjustments ; and with shame I led my thoughts towards all those people living squashed together in real discomfort and privation . |
| 9 | So I told myself . |
| 10 | I must do the watering carefully , I told myself each day — not make a mess . |
| 11 | But , I told myself again , I should soon be home . |
| 12 | ‘ Afterwards I told myself ‘ Who cares what she thinks . |
| 13 | Go under it , I told myself . |
| 14 | All right , I told myself , follow your own rules . |
| 15 | For God 's sake , I told myself , ignore it . |
| 16 | So what , I told myself . |
| 17 | Get a bloody grip on things , I told myself . |
| 18 | Not much wrong with that , I told myself smugly . |
| 19 | After all , I told myself , he might not be any safer in the Parachute Regiment than in the S.A.S. And so , together , we sealed his fate . |
| 20 | But , I told myself , by the time you are standing at the airport terminal ( not the train or the bus station ) , you have burned off the top ones and , come on , lad , you can afford to relax a little . |
| 21 | Breathing deeply , I told myself : ‘ Relax . ’ |
| 22 | Relax , I told myself again ; but was relieved when finally he slumped over into sleep . |
| 23 | ‘ Keep on walking and talk your way out of it , ’ I told myself . |
| 24 | I told myself , if there is any justice in the world I should be punished for it . |
| 25 | Compliments were useful tools of the friendship trade , I told myself , but in her case it was true . |
| 26 | I told myself not to panic ; to stay cool . |
| 27 | The dinner invitation had caught me off-guard but then I told myself , ‘ For God 's sake , he 's a doctor . |
| 28 | Then I realised that I was actually contemplating accepting the senator 's offer , and I told myself that the last thing I needed this summer was to babysit two spoilt rich-kid junkies . |
| 29 | Instead I consoled myself that Ellen would be pleased , and a pleased Ellen might become my shipmate all the way around the world , so really , I told myself , I was not doing this for the senator 's happiness , and not even for the twins , but for my own , and so I shook the senator 's hand . |
| 30 | ‘ That ’ , I told myself , ‘ ca n't be me . ’ |