Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [that] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not that I either like or dislike it , ’ said Stella , ‘ I just do n't see what good it does . ’ |
| 2 | Well no it 's not that I just think it 's the I do n't know you can see through it more . |
| 3 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | It was n't as though either of these men had led me to expect anything , gave me anything to hope for , it 's just that I really liked them , particularly the one I encountered later on . |
| 6 | No , can I just say something right , I 'm not desperate and I 'm not a slag or anything , it 's just that I really really fancy Howard , and if I could I would suck his willy . |
| 7 | ‘ Well … it 's just that I always wanted to die clutching something that was near to the earth . |
| 8 | It 's just that I sometimes think oh I 'd love to have a change round but |
| 9 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 10 | It was just that I never expected it to happen to me . ’ |
| 11 | And it was then that I almost tripped over her . ’ |