Example sentences of "[noun] told himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi told himself to get on with it . |
| 2 | Fool , Tammuz told himself . |
| 3 | To be honest , Edward told himself , I do not know . |
| 4 | But it had needed saying , Dorcas told himself . |
| 5 | Tread warily , the lawyer told himself . |
| 6 | ‘ How bad it would be , ’ Marty told himself callously as he watched him go , ‘ to have your bed and your bellyful and no worries at all ! ’ |
| 7 | I must n't slump into scum lingua just cos I 'm excited , Biff told himself . |
| 8 | I know what he 's thinking , Pascoe told himself . |
| 9 | Marcus told himself that he had muddled up some bears , examined his own dream , concluded it told him nothing he did n't know , and decided not to report it to Mr Rose . |
| 10 | The presence of a rival could blight his own prospects , and if he happened to be from the locality , then Owen O'Clery told himself he might as well be moving on immediately . |
| 11 | Tom told himself that beggars could not be choosers and if he jibbed at playing the flute in this company he could always sing . |
| 12 | Park , you idiot , Graham told himself , you 're looking at this woman as if she was ET , Get a grip of yourself . |
| 13 | Now , Father McGiff told himself , I 'll be able to resume my old evening routine when I can stop my ears to the world outside and listen only to God within me . |
| 14 | Seb told himself he really did intend calling at the cottage to see Anna , but it was easy to make excuses to put off such a visit . |
| 15 | Madeleine was still very young , Harry told himself as they drove the next ten miles in silence . |
| 16 | It was impossible to be euphemistic about the basic facts of nature when one lived on a stud farm , Harry told himself as he watched Cora-Beth rise from the swing seat where they were sitting and walk across the veranda into the house to fetch a fresh jug of lemonade . |
| 17 | I 'll get you one day , you fat sow , Heydrich told himself . |
| 18 | On the other hand this skulking novelist told himself in a notebook , as we recall , ‘ I am a character ’ ; and there is every reason why the narrating ‘ I ’ of The Possessed should be perfectly visible . |
| 19 | Which was why , Mr Pigdon told himself firmly , he looked so all-fired big . |
| 20 | These were followed by two more , whoosh whoosh , and then two more , whoosh whoosh , and they must surely be coming , Little Billy told himself , from the two nose-holes of some galloping panting beast that had smelled him out and was coming after him . |
| 21 | Too late , Gazzer told himself , ‘ I should have listened ! ’ |
| 22 | Even if she fell in , Gazzer told himself , she could probably swim her way out . |
| 23 | He ca n't have seen me , Masklin told himself . |
| 24 | It was the fire that I saw , Masklin told himself . |
| 25 | Masklin told himself that it was very rare for a nome to kill another nome . |
| 26 | And while he was about it , Guy told himself savagely , he had better discover what little plot Isabel had in mind once she reached Winchester . |
| 27 | And that was what he got for testing her , Guy told himself disgustedly . |
| 28 | The man was already living beyond sundown , George told himself . |
| 29 | Rufus told himself now was no time to go hunting for libraries , he would go home first . |
| 30 | No longer is he able to differentiate between fantasy and reality , Father Poole told himself . |