Example sentences of "in all honesty [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | ‘ In all honesty we should have won by at least 15 points , ’ Brian Nicholas , the Bridgend coach , said . |
2 | ‘ I would have had no objection to telling them the position , in all honesty we could have done that and I may give them advance warning next year . ’ |
3 | I know your degree meant a lot to you , but in all honesty you might have been better resting for longer … ’ |
4 | There was no school on a Saturday and she would probably demand that he take her skating on the frozen lakes in the park — and in all honesty he did n't want to disappoint her . |
5 | My own landlord did , in fairness , give me veiled offers of money ( bribes ) to move elsewhere but in all honesty I simply was n't streetwise enough to figure out what exactly he had in mind . |
6 | ( In all honesty I did n't really think that she would want to flick elastic bands but I could n't think of what else to rhyme with ‘ hands ’ . ) |
7 | I did n't want his title or his money , although I must say in all honesty I did enjoy the London season . |
8 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
9 | In all honesty I think they are exactly the same as newpaper reports in that if a team wins 3–0 or 4–0 they automatically say it was a trouncing , and then dredge up ‘ facts ’ to evidence their overall assumption . |
10 | Erm that 's something I 've got er before I arrived here today in all honesty I probably would have said yes . |
11 | We 're talking just under two hundred in Denmark and just under three hundred in Norway it may be cost-effective for us to do it ourselves with initial distribution from Stansted and maybe a local person doing any new distributions but I think in all honesty it will be as cheap for us |