Example sentences of "[adv] sure [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked pudgier and more ordinary without make-up , and he was n't entirely sure she was the same girl . |
| 2 | As he intended to behave extraordinarily well , she would grow to like and respect him ( he was n't entirely sure she did at the moment ) . |
| 3 | She looked as if she was not entirely sure she was a cat , as if , thought Henry , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight of her nine lives were oozing out of her like blood from a wound . |
| 4 | ‘ What ? ’ she whispered , not entirely sure she 'd heard him right . |
| 5 | Searching his eyes , not entirely sure she believed him , she walked round him to look into the lounge . |
| 6 | Not entirely sure she wanted to be the object of someone 's amusement , or a reliever of boredom , she gave him back stare for stare . |
| 7 | Lindsey was n't entirely sure she 'd agree as they moved on to a gleaming operating theatre . |
| 8 | Were they so sure they would be able to catch her ? |
| 9 | Why am I so sure they will come tonight ? |
| 10 | You know , you 've met the kind of person who 's so sure they 're right they wo n't listen to anything , you know , they 're , they 're self-righteous and arrogant and that 's because their superego is very very strong . |
| 11 | ‘ What makes you so sure they 'll be on this ferry , anyway ? ’ |
| 12 | Wycombe were beaten by Bob Taylor 's 82nd-minute winner , and their disconsolate boss Martin O'Neill said : ‘ I was actually looking forward to extra-time because I was so sure we would win . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not so sure we 're ill-matched , and I do n't think you are either , ’ he said with a brooding look that made her shudder . |
| 14 | Why was I so sure it should be fun ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why 's he getting his knickers in a twist anyway if he 's so sure it 's a mistake ? ’ |
| 16 | In practice , I 'm not so sure it would work out . ’ |
| 17 | GUIL : But you seemed so sure it was you who had n't got it . |
| 18 | It was indeed the starting line-up for most of last season … but I 'm not so sure it was the best one ! |
| 19 | I mean , how could you be so sure it is n't their fault ? |
| 20 | I was so sure I would fail , |
| 21 | I was so sure I was drowning that I forgot about the race and screamed out , " Father ! |
| 22 | I was so sure I knew what was right , so critical of other people . |
| 23 | After all , last week I was so sure I loved Helen , and now … after Carol on Saturday night … maybe that 's not love either and I 'll see someone else I 'll like better . |
| 24 | ‘ But what makes you so sure I am good ? ’ |
| 25 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 26 | ‘ I was so sure I got silver that I congratulated Lance and climbed out of the pool , ’ he commented as this one Gold medal verdict more than any helped speed acceptance of the touch-pad timing that has now become standard . |
| 27 | ‘ How can you be so sure I wo n't find him ? ’ |
| 28 | I was n't so sure I was going to throw up now , but that same irresponsible , destructive part of my brain-just a few neurons probably , but I suppose there are a few in every brain and it only takes a very small hooligan element to give the rest a bad name — kept thinking about those fried eggs and bacon on the cold plate , and each time I almost heaved . |
| 29 | ‘ Suddenly I 'm not so sure I would tell you ! ’ |
| 30 | And if you 're so sure you did n't leave the place unlocked — I mean , somebody 's responsible for this little lot , are n't they ? ’ |