Example sentences of "[be] sure [pron] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I said to her when , when he was finished I said it 's good enough cos you 're sure what you you 're doing but I said
2 ‘ Do not deal with people who come knocking on your door asking if they can do work or sell you goods or services , unless you are sure what you are getting into , ’ says a Gwynedd Trading Standards leaflet .
3 ‘ I am sure anybody who had responsibility for this collection would have to consider this course of action . ’
4 I 'm sure what she 's saying is all hopeless , she decided to herself .
5 ‘ I 'm sure what I say is quite unnecessary — but they might , you know , sympathetic looks and so on — I 'd like you to keep them at a distance . ’
6 I 'm sure what you say is true . "
7 Yes , I 'm sure what you say is true and , knowing as many people as we are privileged and glad to know , I agree with you that there is a wide spectrum , but it 's always the case that the vociferous ones are the ones that set the tone , and often in wrong light .
8 Yes but it was an aim which I 'm sure I I would , alright alright
9 I was just going to say that I 'm sure he it 's not that he did n't take it seriously .
10 And I sa , I was telling him , I said , cos I fo , I 'm sure he I 'm sure he met Father Tom .
11 Yeah although the tape 's on I 'll still say I 'll still say I mean there are people within the company as within any company I 'm sure who you when you get to know their technical ability or lack thereof you think well how have they managed to get where they have but they just seem to be able they seem to have this ability to be able to be in the right place at the right time .
12 Like any political arriviste , he could not be sure whom he should trust among his colleagues , but the faction-fights of the previous thirty years must have taught Ceauşescu that in the Romanian Communist Party ideological affinity or even past services counted for little .
13 For the sake of the stability of the continent , ‘ bona fide ’ Europeans ought to be sure what they think .
14 As every parent knows , children 's eating habits can be unpredictable and when your child is away from home it is difficult to be sure what they are eating .
15 Or what we could do , well , what I mean is , maybe would n't do any harm going down to the pub tonight to see if the others are there , only a quick drink mind , we ca n't be sure what they 're like yet — ’
16 I am sure that an America would love that but it may not you know , to an English audience because er we might not be sure what they are talking about .
17 There is not enough evidence to decide this issue , but there is enough to be sure what we should feel about the conclusions he draws concerning Othello : One part of this antithesis follows — some men must be servants — but not the other : why can not all masters be served ‘ truly ’ ?
18 Some words have more stringent thresholds than others , and therefore require the collection of more data before we can be sure what we have seen .
19 In the darkness we could hardly be sure what we were seeing .
20 In fact , we can not be sure what it really means . )
21 Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said .
22 You could never be sure what she was going to feel , do or say about anything .
23 ‘ Everybody 's a contender , ’ Maxim said , so softly that Agnes had to think for a moment to be sure what she 'd heard .
24 I ca n't be sure what my face looked like when I opened it and saw Maureen on the doorstep , but I imagine it must have had a grin on it from ear to ear .
25 Obviously it is impossible to be sure who he meant by it , and Freeman , who noticed this long ago , suggested that he was indicating troops levied mainly within the western shires .
26 Not knowing where I am , I can not be sure who I am .
27 The absence of individual marriages led Morgan to the view that in such a society a person must belong to the gens of the mother , not the gens of the father , because with such a system of marriage you could never be sure who your father was .
28 He made some remark about being surprised to receive Blanche 's request so long after the murder and not being sure what she hoped to gain from viewing the tapes .
29 The lords of the manor owned almost all the lands about the village and now nobody was sure what they should do .
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