Example sentences of "just [that] " in BNC.
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| 61 | It 's just that I 've got this feeling about it all . |
| 62 | ‘ It 's just that most people only realise that in dreams . |
| 63 | She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them . |
| 64 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 65 | 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 . |
| 66 | 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 . |
| 67 | With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound . |
| 68 | It is n't just that she does n't have the stomach to eat anything because of her morbid dread of flying ; more that she ca n't accept touching anything anti-Green . |
| 69 | 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 . |
| 70 | I was not supposed to clean there , it 's just that I love reading and sometimes I feel starved . |
| 71 | Many leaders did just that : Hugh Price Hughes could declare in writing that the National council ‘ represents the view of a majority of the Christian people of England ’ . |
| 72 | It 's just that you see mine as being somewhat different from most other people 's . ’ |
| 73 | It was just that at Summerhill the ‘ kids ’ knew what to do with it . |
| 74 | It is just that politicians in power do show a tendency to become rather bogged down by the business in hand , and battered women , ill-educated toddlers and the tax status of child-minders have , for perfectly understandable reasons , so far not succeeded in exercising their imaginations . |
| 75 | Proust , the most admired of all novelists among academics , appears to be saying just that when he writes that ‘ only true paradises are those one has lost ’ . |
| 76 | It 's not that the jokes are not funny , but just that they are about as fresh as a tin of those pineapple chunks . |
| 77 | It is just that their claim to power is completely out-of-date . |
| 78 | It 's just that I need , we all need , your co-operation if any kind of arrangement is to work out . ’ |
| 79 | It is just that I do n't know what the man will do . |
| 80 | ‘ It 's just that I thought there might be something wrong … ’ |
| 81 | In past decades the roof void in most houses has been just that : a black , dusty hole in which to dump unused goods out of sight . |
| 82 | ‘ It was just that you seemed so interested in my being one of the survivors that I got quite the wrong initial impression . ’ |
| 83 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 84 | It was just that I dislike going off half-cocked , talking too much about a project before I can see where it 's leading . ’ |
| 85 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 86 | It 's just that I have to look after both of them ’ |
| 87 | Just that the path now goes on beyond . ’ |
| 88 | I 'm sorry I was so tiresomely upset just now , it 's just that I want to protect you . ’ |
| 89 | ‘ It 's just that you 're well and gone away and you do n't need me and that 's good ! ’ |
| 90 | Perhaps it was just that Gildas was closest , he understood most , and although their friendship was impregnable , they could still hurt each other . |