Sentence examples for behaved myself from inspiring English sources

I behaved myself that day, and I regret it".

"I may not have behaved myself, but I did the right thing more than the wrong thing," Mr. Codella recalls.

Lying in bed, Axminster tongue, head throbbing, replaying sequentially the evening's events, I would appear to have behaved myself.

If I behaved myself, I might be permitted to do some photocopying for him in the library.

I don't know if I could have behaved myself as much as them as I know having a kid is your life.

At fourteen, she writes, "I feel really beatific tonight, having received a letter from Brooklyn, practised violently one of Beethoven's waltzes (a species of funereal hymn), made two rosettes for a new pair of slippers and generally behaved myself — a sensation having still the charm of novelty".

Her other books include "The I Hate to Housekeep Book" (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962); an etiquette book, "I Try to Behave Myself" (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964); and a memoir, "A Window Over the Sink" (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1981).

According to Peg Bracken, author of the book I Try to Behave Myself, an etiquette guide for "liberated young ladies" sampled in a January 1964 issue of Ladies Home Journall, once a lady takes up a healthy cig habit, it's important for her to know when and where it's appropriate to light up.

I started behaving myself, and controlling my temper".

No words of warning about London, about behaving myself or about signing my life away.

"But then after a while, I thought: 'I'm not going to be able to behave myself.