Example sentences of "[vb past] to be careful " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all promised to be careful . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I might have hurt you — God knows I tried to be careful , but you seem to have this knack of wiping out twenty-five years of control and finesse with a single touch . ’ |
| 3 | You got to be careful when the pavements are frosty cos you can slip and hurt yourself . |
| 4 | I got to be careful about remembering to switch it off . |
| 5 | I got to be careful — cars just suddenly come out from nowhere and it 's easy to have an accident . |
| 6 | I got to be careful crossing the road , specially when I ai n't feeling too good . |
| 7 | I got to be careful of the traffic , cos a car nearly hit me . |
| 8 | I got to be careful at the doorways , cos there 's people coming in and out and a couple of times I nearly get knocked over by people bumping into me . |
| 9 | ‘ Not best known for their reliability , mind , travelling about the country , never being in one place for more than a few weeks , got to be careful there . ’ |
| 10 | But , she said I 'm pleased with him so far , but we still got to be careful that 's why she made him have this collar . |
| 11 | Paula was not very clever with her needle but she soon learned to be careful so as not to incur the wrath of the seamstress . |
| 12 | She had to be careful and clever . |
| 13 | But this was outside the police remit , and meanwhile , they had to be careful not to jeopardise public tranquillity . |
| 14 | He had to be careful . |
| 15 | He had to be careful not to hit the sheep . |
| 16 | I had to work a bit to keep up with him — the path is not as straight as the road ; also I had to be careful not to make a noise . |
| 17 | Gradually the time was increased , though I had to be careful not to ask for too much . |
| 18 | You had to be careful with officials . |
| 19 | I had to be careful in the recording . ’ |
| 20 | He had to be careful for other , more practical reasons . |
| 21 | She had to be careful of kissing because her own mother had died of diphtheria caught by kissing one of her grandchildren . |
| 22 | You had to be careful around that part of the world . |
| 23 | He had no really bad faults but you had to be careful that nothing startled him , such as a bird suddenly rising , and on one occasion he did bolt . |
| 24 | But she had to be careful . |
| 25 | When she did get it in at last , she had to be careful not to trap its tail in the lid when she slid it closed . |
| 26 | But I had to be careful I did n't knock her weight down too much , because her fitness could deteriorate . |
| 27 | We had to be careful when we called round to feed them , though , in case they flew out when we opened the door . |
| 28 | You had to be careful with it , so the outfields were rougher and dryer . |
| 29 | So you had to be careful of him . |
| 30 | But she had to be careful . |