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Promised in sentence

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My students promised me it would work.
At the next regularly scheduled election, Pepe Lobo won in a landslide on a platform that promised reform, but reconciliation as well.
They promised me total confidentiality.
When I married my wife, I promised her I would listen to her every day as if for the first time.
And as I promised, we're now going to look at what the truth looks like.
But I promised you a mystery here in part one.
And I promised myself all those years ago as a young, public defender that I would never, ever forget that feeling.
But my time is running short, and I promised you a vision of what a critical piece of the solution would look like.
So he gathered around himself the friends of Archimedes, and he promised to pay for all the work.
I sincerely want to believe that technology can bring us the techno-utopia that we've been promised, but, you see, I've spent a career in law enforcement, and that's informed my perspective on things.
This is where you earn the seven and a half minutes of bonus life that I promised you earlier.
Now, I'm sure you all keep a copy of the goals under your pillow, or by the bedside table, but just in case you don't, and your memory needs some jogging, the deal agreed then goes like this: developing countries promised to at least halve extreme poverty, hunger and deaths from disease, alongside some other targets, by 2015, and developed nations promised to help them get that done by dropping debts, increasing smart aid, and trade reform.
But anyway, for some reason, I promised myself that I wasn't going to move, that I was going to do this thing that Mummy wanted me to do.
Now, I mention Squeak because Sebastian's first guest happened to see a rather large mouse run across the kitchen, and she promised that she would refrain from leaving a bad review on one condition: he got a cat.
Politicians also need to learn, occasionally, to say that certain things that voters want, certain things that voters have been promised, may be things that we cannot deliver or perhaps that we feel we should not deliver.
I promised him that I would be the best girl, I will come back, anything they wanted after that, I will do it for them.
As I went back, I started talking to the men, to the village, and mothers, and I said, "I want to give back the way I had promised you that I would come back and help you.
We may not yet have the flying cars science fiction promised us, but we can have walls that change color depending on temperature, keyboards that roll up, and windows that become opaque at the flick of a switch.
Okay, now I promised you to tell you some of the outrageous things said about consciousness.
Okay, I promised to refute all these guys, and I don't have an awful lot of time left, but let me refute a couple more of them.
And I'll get you back to Tide, the detergent now, as I promised.
That night I promised myself: I would go back every week until I wasn't nervous anymore.
We kept doing what we promised, slowly we gained their trust.
So I promised myself, the next time, I would say something.
It's important for you to know if the government of your country is able to manage a crisis, if the government is finally able to implement the reforms that it's promised.
May the ideals of one boy unite one nation behind one critical idea that we are one people, we are the people who were promised a government, a government that was promised to be dependent upon the people alone, the people, who, as Madison told us, meant not the rich more than the poor.
So governments care desperately about the image of their country, because it makes a direct difference to how much money they can make, and that's what they've promised their populations they're going to deliver.
And I promised these people that I was going to build this thing, and we're going to build it all right.
Hercules promised to clean them in one day if he could keep one-tenth of the livestock.
So I get back to the base, he called me back and management said, "No, you can't leave the trailer here because we had promised that slot to some other people."
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