Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] that [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 2 | Yeah well it , it 's probably that he 's just got one . |
| 3 | It 's not that she means … ’ |
| 4 | It 's not that she wants to make you feel cheap . |
| 5 | It 's not that he ceases altogether to be the eternal student , but that he becomes reshaped and misshaped into an aberration . |
| 6 | It 's not that he wants to stop them going to the toilet , we 've got to persuade these people to do it on a stagger basis … |
| 7 | It 's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader . |
| 8 | It 's not that he 's got anything against the party 's Purcell anthem , he says , but young voters in particular prefer Bryan Adams . |
| 9 | It 's simply that he wants to create a better atmosphere , and show that after all he 's a reasonable man , and we should n't be too hard on him in these days . |
| 10 | It 's just that she likes the odd nip . |
| 11 | Yeah Emily was trying it on again this morning , I think it 's just that she gets tired cos she feels slothlike in the morning and then by the end of the day she 's over like a rocket |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | It 's just that she has this idée fixe that my agent is the man for me . |
| 14 | it 's just that she needs your name , the fact that you 're male , th an approximate age within five years . |
| 15 | Everything else is alright it 's just that he gets that frustrated |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just that he looks like bottling the Tokyo job , ’ she said quietly . |
| 17 | It 's just that he makes it so damn difficult . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just that he worries if you are n't here . |
| 19 | It 's just that he wants to let off steam , and you 're the only person he can lose his temper with . |
| 20 | ‘ I am not saying that Charles is incapable of love , it 's just that he has this unreal perception of women . |
| 21 | It 's just that he has n't , to me , changed enough , he 's still stuck up with all these various things . |
| 22 | It 's just that he seems so caring … in the work he does with the handicapped … ’ |
| 23 | It 's just that he 's been used to having his own way for so long it does n't occur to him there are perspectives alternative to his own . ’ |
| 24 | It 's just that it does som sometimes seem |
| 25 | There is no reason why computers should n't be natural and friendly , it 's just that it takes a lot more memory in the computer to have all the complex rules of an ordinary language , and also it 's much harder to write the programs that tell the computer how to understand a natural language . |
| 26 | Erm it 's just that it throws you a bit if you 've learnt them that way . |
| 27 | It 's just that it seems a pity for him to reveal his identity . |
| 28 | I mean it 's enough that he pays lipservice to it now which you know would n't have even been recognised . |
| 29 | Mr can I just ask the erm about the I think it 's very that he 's produced this er so that we can look across and make sort of comparisons between the proposals of the groups . |
| 30 | It is rather that he realigns fantasy and fact by using a set of ready-made and entirely artificial rules governing talking animals to explore the workings of a no less unnatural , controlled and rigidly inhuman system . |