Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] be [adv] [that] " in BNC.

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1 I it 's just that I remember on Monday morning hearing on the radio that it was being talked about that afternoon and of course immediately forgot to go and get a copy of the next day 's Guardian and read about it and all the other
2 Their preoccupation with the military significance of the manyattas kept them , however , from consciously appreciating the extent to which it was there that the Masai received the training responsible for those characteristics which ‘ we , the British , deeply applaud .
3 I think you could learn all of those could n't you it 's just that there 's quite a lot of words to learn so they give you some funny ones like ox because it 's got a funny plural and there 's two or three of them you say oxen you do n't say oxes .
4 Yeah that 's right no reflection on you it 's just that I 'm thinking oh I ca I just ca n't see the time when I would ever drive through a gap like that that confidently that 's all .
5 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
6 For them it was enough that 1 , a Westerner from a God-forgotten , immoral country , believed and made some attempt to practise .
7 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 .
8 There 's been death in that house , but old Ted Mosse is dead himself — I knew him and Freda when they was married , what he was before that I ca n't say .
9 Not one candidate in a hundred gives an answer comparable with this ; students regularly fail to consider what it is exactly that A suspects .
10 But before I can do that I need to establish something even more basic : what it is exactly that I am inquiring into .
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