She also checked to be sure our eyes were shut during prayer (of course they weren't).
I don't understand why no one checked to be sure that Jayson Blair graduated from the University of Maryland.
Before one mounts, the saddle is checked to be sure that it fits both the horse and its rider.
He checked to be sure with Life magazine's article on Pop & Susan Sontag's essay on Camp in the Partisan Review, his sources of cultural guidance.
For Christmas, Santa had brought Danny new hockey suspenders, new pads, a new helmet and new skates, and they checked to be sure everything was inside.
He felt their weight against his thigh, and checked to be sure that their outline was not visible through the fabric.
My 10-year-old son, Luca, steadied the loft's side panels as I checked to be sure they were square and level, and again when I drilled pilot holes and secured the pieces with screws (Crown Bolt zinc-plated 2 1/2-inch wood screws, $9 for package of 50, and $6 for a package of 2-inch screws), using a cordless drill.
Sometimes, as they circled the campus, she broke in with questions "What's that?" she wanted to know when his descriptions grew technical, or "Why?" Accustomed to being treated with something more akin to polite fascination when he held forth on his favorite subjects — he often felt, he said, like a zoo animal — he checked to be sure her interest was genuine before providing detailed answers.
