Example sentences of "i thought to myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought to myself . |
| 2 | ‘ It had better , ’ I thought to myself . |
| 3 | ‘ All is conformity now , ’ I thought to myself . |
| 4 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
| 5 | He was eating his food , and , I thought to myself , ‘ Christ , how he has changed his appearance after five days living in a hole in the ground ! ’ |
| 6 | As I stood watching him for a few seconds and looking at the damage to his farm buildings and the dead and wounded cattle around the orchard , I thought to myself . |
| 7 | I thought to myself , ‘ If anyone sees me from Sligo , my reputation is lost . ’ |
| 8 | I thought to myself : ‘ Oh no ’ but Auntie Dot went into the fence and was brilliant at it . |
| 9 | ‘ Damn , ’ I thought to myself . |
| 10 | I thought to myself , they would have razored that easily ; but I suddenly felt inadequate . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought to myself , Martha must be growing up now , it 's time she left the country and came to live with me and go to a good school . ’ |
| 12 | I thought to myself , ‘ Jimmy Dickinson does n't go abroad and certainly not to the States , so if I make a good job of it at Walton Heath I might be caddying for Sandy full-time in the future . ’ |
| 13 | No I thought to myself you do not deserve this death and the you I was thinking of was not the fish itself but all those people standing on the bank . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought to myself , what have I done , what am I going to do ? ’ he says . |
| 15 | Good old Allie , I thought to myself . |
| 16 | So I thought to myself , ‘ Right , I 'll have one more stab at it . |
| 17 | But I thought to myself , I 'll take two when she is n't looking , which I did . |
| 18 | ‘ Cracked it , ’ I thought to myself . |
| 19 | I thought to myself , my mother 's a teacher , my father 's a policeman , my brother 's studying economics . |
| 20 | But I thought to myself , one day somebody is going to say to the child , ‘ Come and whisper in my ear … . ’ ’ |
| 21 | So I thought to myself ‘ I must make a change ’ . |
| 22 | I thought to myself , ‘ I have n't bought any tickets for the raffle but it looks as if I have won first prize . ’ |
| 23 | ( I thought to myself ‘ Quite right … much later … ! ) all to match existing panels and moulding in the church . |
| 24 | In some ways wh I , I , I heard , I was listening to a description on Saturday at the serials and I must admit I thought to myself mm |
| 25 | I thought to myself , and almost smiled . |
| 26 | When the first woman I went with cried out , ‘ Oh , you 've hit the button there , ’ I thought to myself , ‘ You really can learn a lot from books ’ . |
| 27 | Although brief and rather clinical , it was a highly enjoyable experience and I thought to myself , ‘ I must try this again some day ’ . |
| 28 | I thought they all be brilliant , but they were utter shite , so I thought to myself : ‘ There 's a great talent here just waiting to be discovered ! ’ ’ |
| 29 | " And about time , too , " I thought to myself . |
| 30 | I thought to myself ‘ What 's going on ? |