Example sentences of "to [be] honest " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 ! |