Example sentences of "the truth [be] [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 2 | The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’ |
| 3 | The truth is that I was suffering from insomnia : a full stomach is more conducive to sleep than is an empty one . |
| 4 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |
| 5 | The truth is that I could no longer tell whether I was cold or not , hungry or not . |
| 6 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 7 | The truth is that I 'm finding it damnably hard to confess to you what happened between Lotta and myself , and it 's vital that you know . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The truth is that I could n't believe it . |
| 9 | The truth is that I have this slight problem with my jaw It gets sort of locked sometimes and I think in that picture I must have been trying to loosen it up . ’ |
| 10 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 11 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 12 | The truth was that I was full of a sort of green stir . |