Example sentences of "[is] [that] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was my idea as much as Jeff 's that I went with him . ’ |
| 2 | If I left a table in Fif 's that I 'd just acquired , I might attract attention . |
| 3 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 4 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
| 5 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 6 | The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's that I think you 're gay ! |
| 8 | er the one 's that I choose to make , but I would n't go and ask someone to , to help me with it . |
| 9 | It 's that I do n't want it . |
| 10 | Good morning , I must say , I I stand before you today somewhat nervous , because erm , this is , this is my first to you as Treasurer , but this will be a slightly different speech from one 's that I have given in previous years . |
| 11 | All I can say is that I doubt I will be asked to join the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team . |
| 12 | ‘ The problem with casting myself as the male version of Calypso is that I doubt if Ulysses trusted her as far as he could throw her . ’ |
| 13 | The good thing about Sheff Utd ( from SCUMS point of view ) is that I doubt they would go there just to get a draw … they beat SCUM twice last year so might have thought they had a chance . |
| 14 | An example I can cite is that I asked her to research and write up ( unsupervised ) an application to the Carnegie-Mellon Foundation for the microfilming of our 100,000 items in the Archive Collection . |
| 15 | The first is that I felt my battle to be with authority , whether in the form of teachers , matrons , parents , or even nature itself . |
| 16 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 17 | Another reason is that I thought writing in it might be like having someone to talk to , and if I read it back later it would be like someone talking to me . |
| 18 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 19 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 20 | No excuses , as I 've said , and the only explanation I can offer is that I thought you loved Jones . |
| 21 | ‘ The problem is that I learnt this trick whilst tied up and submerged in a barrel of water . |
| 22 | I 'm Mrs and er the point I wan na make is that I understood when Jimmy Jones came here had two lovely full houses but I heard through the building through the grapevine that the members of the trust or council objected to him because he was racist his jokes and sexist . |
| 23 | If you move straight from chapter 5 to chapter 8 you will get a stark contrast between two theories of justification , and all you need to know for the moment is that I take the intervening chapters to provide a reason against any form of foundationalism . |
| 24 | ‘ The simple answer , I suppose , is that I take a look at myself and at the world around me . ’ |
| 25 | But what it is that I measure I do not know . |
| 26 | Thus an instantaneous influence propagates from A to B whose effect depends radically upon exactly what it is that I measure on A. |
| 27 | The upshot of this is that I 've now become a resident , which makes a weekly tour of junk and antique shops even more vital . |
| 28 | ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The end result is that I 've large arrears on the centre 's mortgage , and now the building society is threatening repossession in the new year , unless we can clear the arrears . |