Example sentences of "to be honest " in BNC.

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1 It was n't the sort of stuff that love stories are made of , to be honest . ’
2 I really do n't know what 's going to happen , to be honest . ’
3 I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible .
4 I want to be honest .
5 He has n't worn too well , to be honest .
6 Mexicans in the moonlight , surging towards her over the stubble , old wrinkled women , kids with the bulbous stomachs , things to be honest she did n't see because they drove past too quickly on the motorway .
7 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 . ’
8 Ghost : Well , to be honest , I was never bored With being a knight , or , better still , a lord .
9 To be honest , I could n't give a monkey 's fart about your research .
10 The manager has to be honest , competent and use common sense , while getting on with the artist .
11 Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away .
12 That 's quite an effective way of starting to be honest with someone , ’ admits Frances .
13 Then , one week , the quietest woman in the group said : ‘ This is the only place where I can afford to be honest , ’ and somehow it seemed the healing process had begun .
14 But Mr Sam Hatton said : ‘ I would n't vote for him , to be honest .
15 I think it 's hard to be honest with yourself about certain things and I wanted to think that I had no part in the grandiosity of MainMan and a lot of the bad things about MainMan .
16 To be honest , I think it 's a lot of fun for the engineers . ’
17 He is believed to be honest and is known for his involvement in the army-backed project for ‘ Green Esarn ’ .
18 To be honest , Clem , it started to go out twenty years ago when we failed to join the Common Market at the outset .
19 ‘ It was Mona who put me in touch with you to be honest . ’
20 To be honest no , lurking 's boring and if it 's all the same to you , Nigel old boy , lurking 's out . ’
21 To be honest , those years were not all self-delusion .
22 But I have to be honest and say we tried to join flesh again all our lives .
23 To be honest , I have n't seen much of Tammuz recently .
24 ‘ They like her music very much but to be honest I am of the older regime , I prefer the traditional Welsh choral music .
25 ‘ I have to be honest with you , I 'd like to invest more in education , ’ he said .
26 To be honest , I would n't like to predict the result of either semi-final .
27 To be honest , we were n't sure we 'd sell all our tickets for the replay , but they all went by Thursday and if we get the same backing , we must have a chance . ’
28 To be honest , he had hardly given rugby the time of day as he spent his Saturday afternoons on the soccer pitch , writes Graham Tait .
29 I thought they were out to get me to be honest with you .
30 And to be honest , for questions like this , I usually have to refer to a book for an answer !
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