Sentence examples for promised ourselves from inspiring English sources

Where my parents had the Ford Capri – "The Car You Always Promised Yourself" – my wife and I have the Renault Scenic, the car we always promised ourselves we wouldn't buy till we were much, much older.

And we promised ourselves that we would.

We had promised ourselves this trip for several years.

We've always promised ourselves we'll end up in Dorset.

"We've promised ourselves a good time," added Koma.

We promised ourselves we would do better by Nigel when his time came.

This is perhaps the appliance we all promise ourselves to clean as we go and never do.

While they recap the away-day task, let's all promise ourselves we'll never put ourselves through that level of lip-chewing horror ever again.

He points to marriage as an example: "In marriage, we create a situation where we promise ourselves not to keep options open.

Every game we promise ourselves WC 2010 may yet begin, but up until now we have lived on scraps of good football: the few moments where Holland have played as the Holland of our expectations.

I wish we would all just stop what we are doing and sit still and pray or meditate for 15 minutes and promise ourselves to do whatever we can to keep the events of last year from happening again.