Example sentences of "to be careful " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader of a description needs therefore to be careful about accepting as a description anything more than is actually visible on the canvas or in the sculpture . |
| 2 | I was going to have to be careful from now on . |
| 3 | You had , he says , to be careful not to fumigate on a foggy night when the air was too heavy to let the fumes drift away . |
| 4 | Even if you 've got a darker complexion , or tan easily , you still need to be careful in the sun . |
| 5 | Of course , Jeanne would have to be careful with such a large dog that , in his enthusiasm , he did n't bowl other dogs or people over , or frighten them . |
| 6 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've got to be careful : they cause lots of trouble , ’ said Manoel , glancing nervously at the groups of patrolling military police and the slate-grey truck used to cart away vagrant minors who spend their days here sniffing glue , bathing in fountains , picking pockets and sleeping rough . |
| 8 | Indeed , senior officers initially warned policemen and women at Easton to be careful in the field-worker 's presence , with particular emphasis placed on swearing . |
| 9 | We have to be careful to compare like with like when comparing different elements of the media . |
| 10 | This means managers have to be careful when considering whether to take on a new act . |
| 11 | She had to be careful and clever . |
| 12 | At this point Callinicos has to be careful : it is one thing to dismiss the claims of a rootless postmodernism , wandering naked except for its designer trainers across the face of a barren late capitalism . |
| 13 | You got to be careful when the pavements are frosty cos you can slip and hurt yourself . |
| 14 | I got to be careful about remembering to switch it off . |
| 15 | I got to remember to be careful with the fire . |
| 16 | I got to be careful — cars just suddenly come out from nowhere and it 's easy to have an accident . |
| 17 | You just have to be careful not to hit anything . |
| 18 | I got to be careful crossing the road , specially when I ai n't feeling too good . |
| 19 | I got to be careful of the traffic , cos a car nearly hit me . |
| 20 | It 's like I 'm real light — you know , like one of them silver balloons — and every step I have to be careful not to float off . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But this was outside the police remit , and meanwhile , they had to be careful not to jeopardise public tranquillity . |
| 23 | Another director made it sound like a Faustian pact with the devil : ‘ You have to be careful not to lose your soul ’ , he whispered . |
| 24 | Now we have to be careful with the word ‘ redemptive ’ because in a final way only Christ 's sufferings can be deemed truly redemptive ; but I feel that we can make guarded use of the term . |
| 25 | He 'd have to be careful . |
| 26 | He had to be careful . |
| 27 | ‘ You want to be careful with those , ’ the Hare-woman said . |
| 28 | Nobody told her to be off , or lay off , or push off , or not to touch , or to be careful . |
| 29 | One might even have to be careful about possible re-use of materials which would produce a radiocarbon result older than the true age of manufacture of the artefact . |
| 30 | You 'll have to be careful ! |