Example sentences of "[is] [adv] that i [am/are] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only that I 'm sharing text books with the others |
| 2 | But before I can do that I need to establish something even more basic : what it is exactly that I am inquiring into . |
| 3 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 4 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 5 | It 's just that I 'm saving . |
| 6 | Yeah that 's right no reflection on you it 's just that I 'm thinking oh I ca I just ca n't see the time when I would ever drive through a gap like that that confidently that 's all . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly , it 's just that I 'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now . |
| 8 | I do n't know if it 's just that I 'm missing you … |
| 9 | It 's just that I 'm going to send |
| 10 | It 's just that I 'm planning to write a book which is rather in his field , and I wanted his advice . |
| 11 | But it 's not that I 'm trying to distance myself because I do n't want to be linked directly with that character . |
| 12 | This is why and one of the the real problems with this is it 's not that I 'm criticising , it 's just that if in fact you 've got somebody who was appointed as a treasurer , you can in fact get more information out of it , instead of having to guess what we got from where and how it came in . |
| 13 | No I 'm not , no it 's not that I 'm thinking of . |
| 14 | Thing is though it 's not that I really care about him personally , you know it 's not that I 'm thinking oh it 's a real shame , but it 's just , and usually if , if people are complete dicks I think well er you know , sod them |
| 15 | Please understand — it 's not that I 'm doubting you in any way . |
| 16 | It 's not that I 'm denying the validity of acting , it 's just that it 's not as important to me . |
| 17 | Er well it 's just I 'm ha it 's not that I 'm having more difficulty with one thing than another , it 's just that I have n't , I did n't get round to doing them . |
| 18 | It 's not that I 'm saying anything against them . |
| 19 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 20 | It is there that I am putting up . ’ |