Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's [adv] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Hazel — dear old Hazel — it 's simply that I know there 's something unnatural and evil twisted all round this place . |
| 2 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 3 | It 's just that I prefer the other rooms . ’ |
| 4 | It 's just that I mean this is the only thing about Halloween that I do n't like is the import from America of this trick or treat nonsense . |
| 5 | It 's just that I get so lonely sometimes . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just that I get real fed up with bozos like you trying to rip me off all the time . |
| 7 | It 's just that I hate that expression , that 's all . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's just that I doubt that your grandmother sent you after me with instructions to — to abduct me and drag me to Rome at any cost . ’ |
| 9 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 10 | It 's just that I wish I 'd got my wretched memory back some other way . ’ |
| 11 | It 's just that I du n no I mean |
| 12 | I it 's just that I remember on Monday morning hearing on the radio that it was being talked about that afternoon and of course immediately forgot to go and get a copy of the next day 's Guardian and read about it and all the other |
| 13 | ‘ It 's just that I thought there might be something wrong … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't mean to embarrass you , Guy … it 's just that I thought … |
| 16 | No I , no I understand what you 're saying , it 's just that I thought you said three questions of each . |
| 17 | Erm , it 's just that I had , I 'd told the auditors about but I do n't think that anybody 's and I was unsure we should do that with . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just that I said … . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just that I like it here with you . |
| 20 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not that I mind wasting my time , it 's just that I like to know that I 'm wasting my time . ’ |
| 22 | it 's just that I like it you know . |
| 23 | No it 's just that I like to get all this out of the way . |
| 24 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 25 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 26 | Well , it 's just that I 'd heard … ’ |
| 27 | It 's not that I 'm particularly unhappy with the shape of my body or with my image , it 's just that I worry all the time about what people think about me , what impression they are getting . |
| 28 | It 's just that I 've got this feeling about it all . |
| 29 | It 's just that I 've never met a policeman before . ’ |
| 30 | It 's just that I 've never seriously thought about it before . |