Example sentences of "[pron] to be sure " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Newton , known in the dressing room as ‘ Isaac ’ , still has to pinch himself to be sure he really has arrived in the big time . |
| 2 | For extra effect you can say ‘ Are you sure you would not like to change your mind ’ or ‘ I want you to be sure that you can point to whichever line you like . ’ |
| 3 | I just wanted you to be sure that she 's dangerous to us . |
| 4 | That 's something to be sure of , I do n't think I was sure . |
| 5 | Twenty one say no and that 's something to be sure of as well . |
| 6 | Gloucester 's petition embodies the only surviving details of his side of the agreement , which are , however , too vague for one to be sure how hard a bargain he had driven . |
| 7 | Gloucester 's petition embodies the only surviving details of his side of the agreement , which are , however , too vague for one to be sure how hard a bargain he had driven . |
| 8 | Marie told me to be sure to switch it off when I ai n't in the room , or else at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 9 | It is difficult for me to be sure that I 'm objective , so I think I will go by what other people said . |
| 10 | Only you can help me to be sure . |
| 11 | I would also like them to be sure which player was responsible for Hirst being sent off — his name 's Haber . |
| 12 | You send your boys round with a message , tell them to be sure they deliver it , then you ask who I am ? |
| 13 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 14 | Peering closer he thought he could see a smear roughly the same length on the jacket pocket , but the cloth was too dirty for him to be sure . |
| 15 | Comfort gave Jackson French her address and told him to be sure to call her when he got to London . |
| 16 | Or his own self-deception ; she had unseated him too deeply for him to be sure any longer of the distinction . |
| 17 | ‘ There is such a sense of loss , ’ she said , looking at him to be sure he understood this . |
| 18 | ‘ I told him to be sure not to fall into the wastepaper basket on his way out , ’ said Felicity , attempting to bury her parti-coloured face in her hands . |
| 19 | The seller should of course resist such warranties because of their vagueness , and insist that , if he is to give such a warranty , the purpose should be clearly specified in the contract , with sufficient detail to enable him to be sure that the goods that he supplies are in fact suitable for that purpose . |
| 20 | If only she and Michael had more time together , time for her feelings to rise close enough to the surface for her to be sure of what they were . |
| 21 | By sheer political and economic weight , she would be able to exert sufficient influence on countries economically dependent on her to be sure of dominating majority voting , or by refusing to accept certain policies . |
| 22 | What has he to be sure of now in that quarter ? |
| 23 | Thing is , it 's alright to tell people but they have to s know for themselves to be sure . |
| 24 | The numbers involved ( in detailed cross-tabulations not reproduced in Appendix I ) were too small for us to be sure about this . |
| 25 | In general , it can often be difficult for us to be sure just what is going on in supposed examples of communication . |
| 26 | For the Spirit 's work in assurance is to give us a firm foundation to build on , not to make us arrogant ; the ‘ already ’ and the ‘ not yet ’ of the Spirit 's internal witness enable us to be sure without being cocksure . |
| 27 | This period enabled us to be sure that a single patient had a chronic and persistent history of symptoms of gastrooesophageal reflux . |