Example sentences of "it be [not/n't] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 2 | It 's not that he ceases altogether to be the eternal student , but that he becomes reshaped and misshaped into an aberration . |
| 3 | It 's not that he wants to stop them going to the toilet , we 've got to persuade these people to do it on a stagger basis … |
| 4 | ‘ To a farmer it 's an anathema not to produce on his land and therefore it 's not that he is not being responsible in meeting the challenges . ’ |
| 5 | It 's not that he 's 27 years old or an amateur boxer , but that he 's black . |
| 6 | It 's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader . |
| 7 | I do n't know — it 's not that he 's my dad . |
| 8 | It 's not that he did n't say it , but he was somewhere else at the time , and he just heard the bit of it , he heard the back end of it . |
| 9 | It 's not that he 's got anything against the party 's Purcell anthem , he says , but young voters in particular prefer Bryan Adams . |
| 10 | It 's not that he 's unfriendly or awkward or rude , merely uncomfortable at being in the spotlight without a character to hide behind . |
| 11 | say Chris , it 's not that he ca n't though Madge , he just wo n't |
| 12 | so I er he said er no he said , it 's not that he said I do n't like people to tell me you 've got to do overtime today , he said , I like to be asked ! |
| 13 | It 's not that he 's being kicked out . |
| 14 | I was just going to say that I 'm sure he it 's not that he did n't take it seriously . |
| 15 | It is not that he does n't care , just that his sense of values are different — not better , not worse , just different . |
| 16 | It is not that he lies about them , rather that only a patient and omnivorous prospector would have found the particular treasures which he quotes . |
| 17 | Still , it is not that he wants biologists to give them more credit for maintaining the planet . |
| 18 | ‘ It is not that he had abandoned or qualified his commitment to the principle of non-violence ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ It is not that he minds , ’ her mother said , wearily , as always , explaining and defending her husband to their daughter . |
| 20 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 21 | It was n't that he wanted to be more imaginative than them . |
| 22 | It was n't that he was a good few years older than him or that , like Mick , he had been a working chap . |
| 23 | It was n't that he feared betrayal . |
| 24 | It was n't that he minded her presence ; and he did n't mind her company , on those occasions when he actually spent time with her . |
| 25 | It was n't that he would n't help , often he did , but he believed that by delegating he brought out the best in people , that they would rise to the challenge , and he had other things to be done . ’ |
| 26 | It was n't that he felt pity for them ; far from it — their passivity revolted him . |
| 27 | It was n't that he did n't like women , you understand , he simply stayed faithful to one who was dead . |
| 28 | It was n't that he was bored by his wife ; |
| 29 | It was n't that he was bored with the show , he was bored with his lines . |
| 30 | It was n't that he was n't playing well , it just seemed like he could n't be arsed chasing back and helping Kelly out , I do n't know if he was knackered though . |