Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's just that he went one way and I went another . |
| 32 | It 's just that I 've got this feeling about it all . |
| 33 | ‘ It 's just that most people only realise that in dreams . |
| 34 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 35 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
| 36 | It 's not that I 'm particularly unhappy with the shape of my body or with my image , it 's just that I worry all the time about what people think about me , what impression they are getting . |
| 37 | It 's not her fault Petya wo n't speak to me ; it 's just that he turned against me when I divorced his mother . |
| 38 | I was not supposed to clean there , it 's just that I love reading and sometimes I feel starved . |
| 39 | It 's just that you see mine as being somewhat different from most other people 's . ’ |
| 40 | It 's just that I need , we all need , your co-operation if any kind of arrangement is to work out . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ It 's just that I thought there might be something wrong … ’ |
| 42 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 43 | It 's just that I have to look after both of them ’ |
| 44 | I 'm sorry I was so tiresomely upset just now , it 's just that I want to protect you . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ It 's just that you 're well and gone away and you do n't need me and that 's good ! ’ |
| 46 | It 's just that at the time it all seemed so beautiful and important , it was like some kind of historical event . |
| 47 | ‘ It 's just that one has so much of importance on one 's mind just now . ’ |
| 48 | That 's not to say he aspired to being something of a genius himself , it 's just that he felt a tremendous affinity with those people . |
| 49 | It 's just that most newspaper readers , the serious ones that is , would certainly opt for something a bit thicker , like The Independent . ’ |
| 50 | It 's just that while we 've been together it 's been the activity you 've indulged in most . |
| 51 | It 's just that most of us are not honest enough to admit to the fact . |
| 52 | It 's just that I am so evil and perverted and encrusted with slime that it 's rather difficult for me to remember the fact . ’ |
| 53 | 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 ! |
| 54 | The other three more closely fit the latter than the former model : Mrs Mitchell 's daughter wanted her mother admitted permanently to the local psychiatric hospital ( knowing that she would not be eligible for residential care because of the severity of her condition ) ; but she also added — ‘ not that I do n't want her at home too — I love my mother — it 's just that the strain is too much for me ’ . |
| 55 | Or maybe it 's just that Scotland is too familiar with lads from the back streets of Edinburgh claiming they have a license to kill . |
| 56 | It 's just that I can see myself listening to the Brahms Quartets rather more often . |
| 57 | It 's just that we do n't do it grammatically . |
| 58 | It 's just that I needed to get in touch with my feelings . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't like wasting my energy worrying about things I can do nothing about , ’ Sally said matter-of-factly . |
| 60 | 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 ! |