Example sentences of "[be] [adv] that [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's just that she had a headache and was a bit reticent about it , which is unlike her . |
| 32 | Well no , it 's just that she said |
| 33 | ‘ It 's just that she did n't have any life . ’ |
| 34 | It 's just that she did n't succeed . |
| 35 | Get some movement out there we had a young , a young lady who er she name and she 's up front in the cabinet you know every opportunity she had she was looking for round the room , but not sort of in the round the outside all the time and it 's just that she wanted to be with a group of people all the time . |
| 36 | That 's not to say he aspired to being something of a genius himself , it 's just that he felt a tremendous affinity with those people . |
| 37 | It 's just that he went one way and I went another . |
| 38 | It 's not her fault Petya wo n't speak to me ; it 's just that he turned against me when I divorced his mother . |
| 39 | It 's just that he wanted to see Jenny in front of everyone else . |
| 40 | I think it 's just that he arrived at the same conclusions . |
| 41 | yeah well you know it 's okay well you know I well you know yeah it 's just that it worried me about this meeting here and three people out of the five people in the room did n't realise that it was a reservations and booking service . |
| 42 | It 's not hard , it 's just that it fell off my stick . |
| 43 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | ‘ It 's just that I thought there might be something wrong … ’ |
| 46 | ‘ 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 . |
| 47 | ‘ I did n't mean to embarrass you , Guy … it 's just that I thought … |
| 48 | No I , no I understand what you 're saying , it 's just that I thought you said three questions of each . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | ‘ It 's just that I said … . ’ |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Well , it 's just that I 'd heard … ’ |
| 53 | I mean you 've got to be careful at the end of the tax year that you 're actually okay on that ground , er but , and you can make a declaration to the revenue if you 're over the limit , it 's just that I mentioned that because some people like a joint account for it to be received into so that they can both spend it basically . |
| 54 | It 's just that I needed to get in touch with my feelings . ’ |
| 55 | I know , it 's just that I remembered picking milk up this morning to make Maggie a drink , and there did n't seem a lot so I thought I must remember |
| 56 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 57 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
| 58 | I just … . it 's just that I wanted to tell her how sorry I am about … about what happened to your father and brother but , not knowing her , I did n't want to say it in a way that might upset her . |
| 59 | It 's just that I happened to . |
| 60 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |