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Example sentences for "depend upon"

  • The men of business, indeed, came up, but many of them did not bring their families to town till the spring came on, and that they saw reason to depend upon it that the plague would not return.

  • Depend upon it, in a week I will have him obedient and well broke in.

  • Never mind, Doctor, he will be more polished next time you call here, depend upon it.

  • I presume I have a right to choose my own acquaintance, and, depend upon it, it will not be that of a leveller.

  • Perhaps I may pick you out some little trifle there, but don't depend upon it; you are a disagreeable creature and may be I shall not care for you.

  • We believe all this; but, as it is not yet confirmed, don't depend upon it too much.

  • His frankness charms one when it is not necessary to depend upon it: and his contempt for fools is very flattering to any one who happens to know the present ministry.

  • Depend upon it, the longer you can keep your illusions the better.

  • Depend upon it, Edie dear, that always counts for something in society.

  • Depend upon it, Daddy, there's nothing like leather.

  • Depend upon it, he likes little Celia better, and she appreciates him.

  • She says the truth to herself, depend upon it.

  • If there is such a man, depend upon it Bulstrode knows him.

  • Depend upon it, young Ladislaw will do you credit.

  • She has taken notice of you, though, depend upon it.

  • Thou hast given them the alarm sufficiently; thou wilt have them upon thy back before night, depend upon it, to ask thee wherefore thou didst so.

  • If thou pleasest but to follow the measures that I shall resolve on, depend upon it, though we will go off from the ships, we will not a man of us go any nearer them than within call to talk with them.

  • Now the mischief is out; depend upon it the custom-house people went rummaging about the ship in our absence, and discovered poor Dantes' hidden treasures.

  • Adieu, your excellency; depend upon me as firmly as I do upon you.

  • No; the people then have their crops to depend upon.

  • There may be two or three boats manned by old men at home; but, with the exception of what they bring in from the Sound, I have nothing else to depend upon.

  • The fishing here is the only thing a man has to depend upon, and sometimes, when it turns out bad year, he perhaps has taken a greater amount of supply from the shop for his family than usual.

  • I say it is not convenient for driving a business, unless you have some means to depend upon in the fishing or such like.

  • Depend upon it, the late lamented will remain in the ascendant till there are no breakers ahead.

  • Depend upon it, he thinks he is proceeding selon les regles.

  • Nay,' said the Doctor, 'depend upon it, the desk is admirable training for good soldiers of the Church.

  • He will see through this horrible mystery, and throw the suspicion in the right quarter, whatever that may be, depend upon it.

  • There you are wrong then; for, depend upon it, a cloister will be your fate; at any rate my business here is at an end.

  • But it is best not to be intimate with gentlemen of this profession and to take the calculations at second hand, as you do logarithms, for to work them yourself, depend upon it, will cost you something considerable.

  • Miss Pinkerton would have tried to check this blind devotion very likely, had she been Amelia's confidante; but not with much success, depend upon it.

  • It is a frequently recurring fact that in such cases careful examination is most of all necessary, because people are so much inclined to depend upon ``the first, always indubitably true impression.

  • In point of fact, they do not want short-cuts--they simply avoid complicated inference and depend upon intuition, as they very safely may.

  • Depend upon it, my lads, there's more going on about here than we think.

  • Depend upon it, in natural history, as in everything else, when the English mind fully determines to work a thing out, it will do it better than any other.

  • Depend upon it, you have earned the lasting gratitude of all thoughtful men.

  • Depend upon it, the trust which you placed in my hands when I left you--to choose for both of us--has not been abused.

  • Depend upon it unless some sudden attack of laziness supervenes, such an opportunity shall not slip unused out of my hands.

  • Just that people thought it their own business to bring up their children themselves, and let the actual technical teaching depend upon opportunities, whereas now they get them taught, but let the bringing up take it chance.

  • Depend upon it, the older you grow, the more dangerous you will find it to begin by hitting the blots.

  • It is all that fellow Flinders, depend upon it,' said Colonel Mohun.

  • Depend upon it, there's nothing like going to the other end of the world to teach the value of home ties.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bons mots; dear sister; depend upon; depended upon; dependent areas; dependent clause; dependent territory; dependent upon; depending upon; depends upon; feet higher; follow them; get down; level country; love each; maintain the; must fight; naturally enough; organic development; previous chapter; rather slender; small company; tell what; tolerably good; under those; write home