Example sentences of "it was n't that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 2 | It was n't that I was an amazing person or exactly the right guy for the job . |
| 3 | It was n't that I was tempted to eat those convenient nuts , just the very fact of their existence . |
| 4 | It was n't that I was doubting my faith or denying the reality of my becoming a Christian , but rather that , though I had genuinely believed ten years earlier , my commitment had been intertwined with the emotional comfort of sharing the beliefs and way of life of my family and certain friends . |
| 5 | It was n't that I would n't try Terry 's material , because we did try it ; it 's just that none of us really liked it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " It was n't that I was in love with him , you know , " she said , from time to time , as chorus to her main argument , " it was n't as though I was in love with him , you know . " |
| 8 | It was n't that I disliked , distrusted or in any way doubted the sympathy of my friends . |
| 9 | It was n't that I thought myself deserving of more delight than was offered the mass of mankind ( I told myself ) but that the common lot seemed so dire . |
| 10 | " It was n't that I had a louder voice.Just more resonant . |
| 11 | It was n't that I minded Fenella and I could have had fun doing a wind-up on her parents . |