Sentence examples similar to My self control from inspiring English sources

My self-control crumbled, however, when I spotted a woman in a black chador delighting a slew of children with bubble guns.

My self-control is improving every day.

I was going flat out and lost my self-control.

I still wanted to talk to her, and my self-control was dwindling.

It was like a constant battle between my sexual urges and my self-control.

"'Talk it over with who?' I said, ungrammatically, crossly, teetering on the edge of my self-control".

Then I started feeling twitchy and it took all my self-control not to start checking email and Twitter.

But it is hard for me to maintain my self-control, and I worry I will bend students to my authority".

It took all my self-control to refrain from announcing to the hundreds of passers-by, "MY DAUGHTER DESIGNED THIS DRESS!" because she would have been embarrassed by the attention.

It's taken all of my self-control to resist watching the preview reel of next week's episode, so that we might all go through these difficult few weeks together.

Questioned by his barrister, Ben Cooper, Love – who suffers from eczema, Asperger syndrome, depression and psychosis – told the court: "Sadly, what I expect [in an American prison are] the urges, the depression, the helplessness … I will exercise what remains of my self-control and I will take my life.