Example sentences of "[adv] be honest " in BNC.
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| 1 | So be honest and accurate . |
| 2 | So be honest , Belinda , since we 've agreed that we 're friends . ’ |
| 3 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 4 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 5 | Know what I mean , I 'm just being honest with ye . |
| 6 | just be honest with yourself . |
| 7 | I 've always been honest about it . ’ |
| 8 | Yes , yes , her mother had always been honest about her lack of initiative in that direction . |
| 9 | Besides , she had always been honest , had never stolen anything , not even as a child . |
| 10 | I doubt if that is so I think to some extent we may be in what we are saying and doing , feeding the current which says that nobody in national politics could conceivably be honest or decent or competent in any way whatsoever , that to be a Member of the House of Commons or to be a Member of the Government is somehow to have the mark of put upon them . |
| 11 | I use the word love very , very loosely , like be honest I do n't think I love , you can feel the that love |
| 12 | Always be honest about your intentions or you may regret it later . |
| 13 | Always be honest and faithful and sincere in your dealings with others where are your trainers ? ’ |
| 14 | Though I suspect that what we will find if we really are honest with ourselves that quite a lot of things which we see here are not always exaggerated from the point of the exercise , that we exaggerate things out of all proportion so that we can actually start looking at it and seeing . |
| 15 | Let us now be honest with each other . |
| 16 | Now be honest . |
| 17 | But you go , er Scott , now be honest , I felt like , put my arm on his shoulder like this |
| 18 | she 's daft well be honest she 's always into it , either somebody wants to borrow it , her mam will borrow some |
| 19 | ‘ I wish he 'd at least been honest with me and I could have divorced him . |
| 20 | Well , if that 's the reason they should at least be honest about it . |
| 21 | We should therefore be honest enough to defend our tampering not in terms of its purported linguistic merits , but in terms of its political utility for raising consciousness , denouncing sexism and empowering women . |