Example sentences of "it be [adv] that i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's mostly that I ca n't sleep . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 3 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't understand French . |
| 5 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 6 | It 's just that I ca n't help . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't stand the slur on my grandmother 's memory . |
| 8 | It 's just that I ca n't bear to see someone like you , Ruth , made miserable so worthlessly , and until you get some feeling of respect for yourself you 're never going to snap out of it , and you 'll go on being used as a doormat . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's just … ’ she smiled tremulously at him through damp , spiky eyelashes ‘ … it 's just that I ca n't … |
| 10 | It 's just that I would n't consider it was right … fair … feeling as I do about … about another man . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just that I might as well have stayed in the sitting-room , that 's all . ’ |
| 12 | Well it 's just that I may be totally wrong but I just read it first when you read it first it 's like its prey in the light if you see what I mean . |
| 13 | It 's just that I could never remember it afterwards , and anyway everyone seemed to pronounce it differently . |
| 14 | It 's just that I could n't take it . |
| 15 | It 's just that I can see myself listening to the Brahms Quartets rather more often . |
| 16 | It 's just that I can actually hear it . |
| 17 | It 's just that I 'd like to be doing more outside work . |
| 18 | It 's just that I must talk this through . |
| 19 | It 's so that I ca n't see his face , Merrill thought . |
| 20 | It 's only that I can not stand possessiveness , it diminishes people . ’ |
| 21 | " I hate to cut you short , " said Richard from the hatch , " it 's only that I can hardly expect my staff to be in time if I 'm late myself . " |
| 22 | Rates of CTT chargeable on the coming to an end of an interest in possession during the lifetime of the beneficiary On a separate matter , it is right that I should inform the Committee , for the avoidance of doubt , that the lower rates of CTT announced by the Chief Secretary on 5th February which would apply to transfers of value occurring during the lifetime of the transferor will also apply where an interest in possession comes to an end during the lifetime of the person beneficially entitled to that interest . |
| 23 | It is then that I shall be restored . ’ |
| 24 | And the boatman said : ‘ Tell me which boat it is so that I will know which boat not to look under . ’ |
| 25 | I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’ |
| 26 | I thought that it was right that I should talk to you , try and build a better picture of Michael . ’ |
| 27 | I was now completely in the dark and it was here that I would shoot whatever film I had onto the skirting board of my makeshift cinema . |