Example sentences of "[adj] to tell the truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stott went on : ‘ Investigative journalism like this has proved that no Minister , however powerful , however rich , however threatening he might be , can come up against a newspaper that is prepared to tell the truth . |
| 2 | I would n't have come if I was n't prepared to tell the truth . |
| 3 | The prospect of publicity deters perjury : witnesses are more likely to tell the truth if they know that any lie they tell might be reported , and provoke others to come forward to discredit them . |
| 4 | I 'm feeling pretty tired to tell the truth . |
| 5 | It 's not a sin to lie about it but , in my opinion , it 's far better to tell the truth . |
| 6 | I reckon he 's pretty homesick to tell the truth . |
| 7 | Flipping back through the pile of loose pages again , he looked for the words he had written about the dark-haired princess who had so generously , so openly acknowledged his presence , the girl to whom ( surely ) he would have been able to tell The Truth . |
| 8 | I 'm pretty worried to tell the truth . |
| 9 | I 'm feeling a bit dizzy to tell the truth . |
| 10 | I feel really miserable to tell the truth . |
| 11 | About these matters it seems to me that he writes really well , in a manner that might suggest the intent translation of a Latin author anxious to tell the truth . |
| 12 | He said he had been scared to tell the truth after a series of threats from one of the gang . |
| 13 | I feel a bit naughty to tell the truth , going off like that and leaving Mr Jackson waiting for me . |
| 14 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |