Example sentences of "but to be honest " in BNC.
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1 | Manager Mr Cutts said : ‘ Provided they 're with their owners and are on leads , they 're welcome , but to be honest , we do n't get many in . ’ |
2 | ‘ They like her music very much but to be honest I am of the older regime , I prefer the traditional Welsh choral music . |
3 | ‘ But to be honest , I am a bit surprised there has n't been more interest considering how many I am scoring . |
4 | But to be honest , we thrive on it . ’ |
5 | I should like to say I joined the scheme out of humanitarian concerns but to be honest it was with a view to increasing business . |
6 | I would very much like to be able to tell you how many species there are in the ‘ open water ’ group , but to be honest , in common with some scientists as well as other hobbyists , I 'm not sure . |
7 | But to be honest it is a good way of focusing in on what you what we 've been talking about tonight and if you can I think it would be worthwhile doing as part of your preparation to help you to think . |
8 | Erm but to be honest I , I think you 're right about the Christian angle because I do think that erm , although I enjoyed that year , |
9 | I 've come to terms with it , it does n't bother whether I 've got it or not , but to be honest I 'd rather have more hair than I do now . |
10 | Erm then on the seventeenth erm we had our part at my house , it was very enjoyable as always , but to be honest I almost collapsed , I really had had it by then . |
11 | I , I would normally say to you now , right what 's your objectives for the two days , but to be honest if we do that , er , I do n't think it helps very much , erm , but if anybody wants to make any comments about any specific part of it , er , then I 'll try and just talk you through it . |
12 | But to be honest , I ca n't think what we can do to stop you . |
13 | Lord of the Field , a winner at the Curragh , is an English entry but to be honest it all looks a bit thin on the ground — a bit like the St Leger . |
14 | ‘ But to be honest it has broken my heart to leave Bangor . |
15 | Lord of the Field , a winner at the Curragh , is an English entry but to be honest it all looks a bit thin on the ground — a bit like the St Leger . |
16 | ‘ I 've watched the TV series Specials , but to be honest it 's a load of rubbish . |
17 | The referee was weak and allowed the Russians to get away with a few naughty episodes but to be honest Liverpool were n't that far behind . |
18 | But to be honest I should n't be eating that sort of thing anyway , so |
19 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
20 | erm sometimes that 's , that 's about it but to be honest |