Example sentences of "[prep] [be] honest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it must be acknowledged that there is a danger of deliberate under-recording , the emphasis placed by the course on the value and importance of being honest with oneself appears to have resolved this problem . |
| 2 | Just as the injunctions may serve to exaggerate the feeling of powerlessness , in the face of a limited ( even if substantial ) loss of power , so they lead people to exaggerate the imagined risks of being honest . |
| 3 | Well that 's the great point of being honest , that 's a great point , |
| 4 | Charles and Diana could no longer pretend their marriage was working and both knew their only chance of future happiness lay in being honest . |
| 5 | What is the point in being honest nowadays ? . |
| 6 | It was n't the sort of stuff that love stories are made of , to be honest . ’ |
| 7 | I really do n't know what 's going to happen , to be honest . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I want to be honest . |
| 10 | He has n't worn too well , to be honest . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Ghost : Well , to be honest , I was never bored With being a knight , or , better still , a lord . |
| 14 | To be honest , I could n't give a monkey 's fart about your research . |
| 15 | The manager has to be honest , competent and use common sense , while getting on with the artist . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That 's quite an effective way of starting to be honest with someone , ’ admits Frances . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But Mr Sam Hatton said : ‘ I would n't vote for him , to be honest . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ To be honest , I think it 's a lot of fun for the engineers . ’ |
| 22 | He is believed to be honest and is known for his involvement in the army-backed project for ‘ Green Esarn ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ To be honest , Clem , it started to go out twenty years ago when we failed to join the Common Market at the outset . |
| 24 | ‘ It was Mona who put me in touch with you to be honest . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ To be honest no , lurking 's boring and if it 's all the same to you , Nigel old boy , lurking 's out . ’ |
| 26 | To be honest , those years were not all self-delusion . |
| 27 | But I have to be honest and say we tried to join flesh again all our lives . |
| 28 | ‘ To be honest , I have n't seen much of Tammuz recently . |
| 29 | ‘ They like her music very much but to be honest I am of the older regime , I prefer the traditional Welsh choral music . |
| 30 | ‘ I have to be honest with you , I 'd like to invest more in education , ’ he said . |