Example sentences of "be [adv] [that] i [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's been said that I am a much improved player this season ’ , Hamilton says , ‘ but I believe that the difference is merely that I am that much more confident . |
| 2 | It is not that I am not eligible , |
| 3 | It 's just that I am so evil and perverted and encrusted with slime that it 's rather difficult for me to remember the fact . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me . |
| 5 | rush out , it 's just that I 'm not very hungry . |
| 6 | It 's just that I 'm all he has . |
| 7 | It 's just that I 'm too involved in what 's happening to play games — at least , to play games with you . |
| 8 | it 's just that I 'm never gon na get to up to . |
| 9 | Yeah , I 've got nice T-shirts , it 's just that I 'm really cold . |
| 10 | It — it 's just that I 'm so nervous . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just that I 'm so lonely , sir ! ’ said the child . |
| 12 | Erm no not really I , I feel alright , it 's just that I 'm so nasty all the while and |
| 13 | You must think me very silly but it 's just that I 'm so excited ! |
| 14 | No it 's not that I was just getting together to play a bit of recording stuff . |
| 15 | It 's not that I 'm not fond of her , you know that , May , but I daresay her life must suit her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ But the word is out that I 'm not funny and that 's a pretty good word to have . ’ |
| 19 | It 's simply that I 'm not prepared to see him branded a fraud and a charlatan merely in order to prolong your receipt of them . |
| 20 | It was less that I was too proud , more that I was too embarrassed . |
| 21 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 22 | It was n't that I was n't listening , I heard him all right ; but I was busy with my own thoughts , or , rather , my own feelings — the two were inextricably mixed together at this moment — and what he said was merely a background to the tumult that was going on inside me . |