Example sentences of "just that [pers pn] do n't [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | She burst into tears and said she had not meant to criticize me ; it was just that we did n't love her , nobody did , and she had only her ‘ things ’ to care for now . |
2 | It 's just that we did n't know that I did n't hear what she said . |
3 | Yeah , we can always get hold of them it 's just that we do n't carry them , we 're a small branch you see |
4 | It 's just that we do n't do it grammatically . |
5 | It 's just that we do n't want anything to ruffle the Khedive 's hair just when the negotiations are approaching a delicate stage . ’ |
6 | Perhaps it 's just that we do n't have enough of those long , thin granite cracks . |
7 | I do n't Albert do n't mind going for her cigs , but it 's just that we do n't get up early in the morning , you know , and if me mum 's ringing at eight o'clock in the morning , 'cos she got no cigs . |
8 | They might have been done , it 's just that we do n't know . |
9 | Well that 's debatable I think they 've got plenty of people up here to do it it 's just that they do n't want to do it . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | It 's just that she did n't succeed . |
12 | So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people . |
13 | It was just that she did n't lie , to herself or others , about what they were . |
14 | ‘ It 's just that she did n't have any life . ’ |
15 | It 's just that you do n't know how we do it here , Captain Owen . |
16 | 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 ! |
17 | " It 's just that you do n't look much more than seventeen yourself . " |
18 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
19 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
20 | However , he still spends £150 a week on records , saying ‘ It 's just that I do n't feel so judgemental about music any more . ’ |
21 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't go in for casual encounters . ’ |
22 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't think Hugo or Georgina would do the job as well as you do . |
23 | It 's just that I do n't think my English is so good any more . |
24 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't think in terms of system as much as you do . ’ |
25 | ‘ Not a bit , it 's just that I do n't tell anything , you see , and the Community likes that , they feel I 'm part of them . |
26 | I do n't really want to be seen as part of the team and it 's not because I do n't like them — they 're all nice people — it 's just that I do n't want to be The Word 's latest wanker . |
27 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't want Officer Banana-Split Hassan to start harassing Fernand unnecessarily . ’ |
28 | No , I could get a baby-sitter , it 's just that I do n't want to go out . |
29 | It 's just that I do n't want Jennifer , especially , to be hurt any more ; she really has had enough . ’ |
30 | It 's just that I do n't want erm |