Sentence examples for promised herself from inspiring English sources

One day, she promised herself, she would become Phoebe Snow.

Just one more misdeed in 2017, Clara promised herself.

Whatever Rule promised herself, "fact-detective stories" were her career, and the disingenuousness lingers.

She had promised herself that she wouldn't be clingy with Simon.

Her previous affairs had been gruelling, and she had promised herself not to do gruelling ever again.

She'd promised herself that she'd swim at least a mile, and she couldn't have done more than a quarter.

With Mrs Patmore as her pimp, it was always obvious she'd have to promise herself to William.

Every day, she promises herself that she will not voice her resentment when Vronsky returns, and every day she plays truant with that promise, unable not to be herself.

She promises herself that one day she'll actually submit this one somewhere.

On the power ballad "Break of Dawn", Richard promises herself and a love interest that he will "never see the break of dawn".

"I will make sure that it will be different for students coming to Wageningen," Mrs Verstegen promised to herself at the time.