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Example sentences of "[pers pn] simply [conj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I I I I 'm until you spoke to the collators department , they told you simply that they knew each other .
2	To make love to you simply because — I had fallen in love with you . ’
3	Most of you simply because they have no shame , now bringing it round to a spiritual thing , how can we show that we , where it describes there beggars for the spirit , it really means having no shame whatsoever in the truth , never hold back in demanding really , what your requirements are in the way of spiritual things and a good mirror to this is analyze yourself and ask yourself what am I like , am I really a beggar in spirit , what am I like when the magazines come ?
4	And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’
5	‘ There are those who want to be seen with me simply because of who I am .
6	They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped .
7	To treat them simply as statements of objective fact , to be proved or disproved by appeal to observation of the world around us , to the speculations and arguments of metaphysical philosophy , or even to the authority of the Bible understood as a collection of ‘ divine truths ’ , is to misconceive their nature and function .
8	Scott does not see strata as consisting of individuals , nor does he see them simply as positions generated by the economic system , but rather as groups of inter-marrying and inter-connected families .
9	Some teachers saw them simply as points for discussion and considered themselves free to accept or reject them without prejudice to their professional future in the LEA .
10	Even if mothers-in-law made every effort to be scrupulously careful in what they said or did , they worried that the children still saw them simply as interfering busybodies .
11	My mum had always been very open , but I had problems talking to her simply because she was my mum .
12	She may find it difficult not to regard you still as the child who would do her bidding without question ; and you have to learn to see her , not just as your mother , but as a ‘ person ’ too , with good and bad traits in her character just like everyone else — not expecting silver-haired sainthood from her simply because she gave birth to you .
13	You should never attempt to dominate her simply because she is living in your home , for when you invited her to come to live with you it became her home too — the only home she has now , and she must be allowed to remain her own woman .
14	Although she had not been prepared for his barrage of questions and had answered them almost truculently , she had made Nicky think twice about her simply because she seemed more direct and independent than most of the girls he knew .
15	I told him simply that I had felt ill at a very unfortunate moment .
16	I was the first person to take him simply as he was , and for that he showed his gratitude by giving me a light kiss on the cheek in the darkened carriage .
17	I mention him simply because his was a typical case .
18	Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects .
19	Why is there a shortage of money for our teams and travelling coaches , or is it simply that the LTA 's overpaid employees are anxious to preserve their lifestyles at the expense of British tennis ?
20	Is this due to changing ideas about how the British system of government should be organised , widely held , or is it simply that the government of the day is using its power to change the system in the pursuit of its own political goals ?
21	Was it simply that he wished to remain in Istanbul , and , if so , did he wish to do so for professional or for personal reasons ?
22	The purpose of this research project is to discover why lone parent poverty rates vary across countries : is it simply that some transfer systems are more generous ?
23	Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ?
24	Miss or is it simply that er when the male rang up to say about Lawrence at has a gun and that he is the caller who is concerned for the safety of the occupiers .
25	We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse .
26	Such persons tended to see it simply as a question of money compensation for the injuries which had been inflicted in the shooting .
27	The challenges facing it were daunting : a considerable proportion of the UN was opposed to its existence ; the predominant political forces in south Korea regarded it simply as providing a veneer of international respectability for the creation of a south Korean state ; north Korea had no intention of helping it in any way and the United States believed the commission should complete its task swiftly and without asking awkward questions .
28	Prominence is the related psychological notion : Halliday defines it simply as " the general name for the phenomenon of linguistic highlighting , whereby some linguistic feature stands out in some way " . "
29	We define it simply as the occurrence in a text of a linguistic or stylistic category ( see 2.1 ) .
30	They called the job crow-keeping , a phrase that Shakespeare used to describe it ; some called it bird-keeping or bird-tending — keeping the birds off the newly sown land — while others referred to it simply as rook-scaring .