Example sentences of "be just that [pers pn] can [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't understand French . |
| 4 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 5 | It 's just that I ca n't help . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't stand the slur on my grandmother 's memory . |
| 7 | It 's just that I ca n't bear to see someone like you , Ruth , made miserable so worthlessly , and until you get some feeling of respect for yourself you 're never going to snap out of it , and you 'll go on being used as a doormat . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's just … ’ she smiled tremulously at him through damp , spiky eyelashes ‘ … it 's just that I ca n't … |
| 9 | It 's just that I can actually hear it . |
| 10 | Although the money 's not important , it 's just that you ca n't keep asking a girl that age to come out . |