Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [that] i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is since that I studied it , ’ said Greg . |
| 2 | I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’ |
| 3 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense . |
| 5 | No I , no I understand what you 're saying , it 's just that I thought you said three questions of each . |
| 6 | Yep and and he does n't seem to be able to concentrate and I said , but Neil you can drive , when you go out with me you drive beautifully yes but yours is an automatic car , I said , it 's not that I said you 've got road sense you know what you 're doing , I said your good . |
| 7 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
| 8 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 9 | Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’ |
| 10 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 11 | It was then that I realised I needed some first aid training . ’ |
| 12 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 13 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 14 | In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's . |