Example sentences of "just that [pers pn] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.

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1 It 's just that we have n't got any resistance to the kind of germs they 're used to .
2 ‘ It 's just that we have n't found it yet . ’
3 But I 'll have to be very careful with it I I do expect , I would expect , that there would be inquiries for that kind of investment here erm it 's just that we have n't any major ones in the last couple of years of that type because the overall framework here is opposed to it .
4 She burst into tears and said she had not meant to criticize me ; it was just that we did n't love her , nobody did , and she had only her ‘ things ’ to care for now .
5 It 's just that we did n't know that I did n't hear what she said .
6 Perhaps it 's just that we do n't have enough of those long , thin granite cracks .
7 It 's just that we do n't do it grammatically .
8 It 's just that we do n't want anything to ruffle the Khedive 's hair just when the negotiations are approaching a delicate stage . ’
9 They might have been done , it 's just that we do n't know .
10 I do n't Albert do n't mind going for her cigs , but it 's just that we do n't get up early in the morning , you know , and if me mum 's ringing at eight o'clock in the morning , 'cos she got no cigs .
11 Yeah , we can always get hold of them it 's just that we do n't carry them , we 're a small branch you see
12 She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them .
13 Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough .
14 Well that 's debatable I think they 've got plenty of people up here to do it it 's just that they do n't want to do it .
15 It is n't just that she does n't have the stomach to eat anything because of her morbid dread of flying ; more that she ca n't accept touching anything anti-Green .
16 It was n't her reaction that I was wary of , it 's just that she does n't even know how she made her children so how was she going to understand what I was trying to tell her !
17 So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people .
18 It was just that she did n't lie , to herself or others , about what they were .
19 ‘ It 's just that she did n't have any life . ’
20 It 's just that she did n't succeed .
21 It was no longer just that she did not like birds or could not bear to touch them — she could have coped with that , as it would not have intruded greatly on her everyday life .
22 ‘ I do n't say he could n't have , just that he did n't .
23 It 's just that he has n't , to me , changed enough , he 's still stuck up with all these various things .
24 the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good .
25 I 'm not saying that it is necessarily trivialising to talk to interviewees about their clothes , it 's just that you do n't find the male presenters on Rock Steady talking to Phil Collins about his suits !
26 " It 's just that you do n't look much more than seventeen yourself . "
27 It 's just that you do n't know how we do it here , Captain Owen .
28 It 's just that I du n no I mean
29 ‘ It 's just that I have not yet learnt to trust the species who , as Kipling points out , is more deadly than the male . ’
30 It 's just that I have n't had time to think about it and I only thought that with all those shepherds in the area there was bound to be some traffic in illegally slaughtered lamb .
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