Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] be [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE spring Town Crier came yesterday and what a terrific read it is now that it is being produced by Darlington College of Technology students . |
| 2 | So give us some indication of what sort of press release it was so that we know what we 're talking about in the |
| 3 | What I would like is for all the Councillors to look at this , to advise me which other seats they think are indeed the responsibility of and then I 'll go back and go to battle but er I 'd like everybody 's views on which ones they believe they are so that I can do it firmly . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose it is just that I have led a more open life than you . |
| 5 | Why Martha transferred the money before she put her apron on I do n't know — I suppose it 's just that everyone has their own little routines for doing things . |
| 6 | I suppose it 's just that the English are my tribe . |
| 7 | Looking back I suppose it was then that I started to brood about a problem that grew and grew until it burst out into the open at the World Championships . |
| 8 | if I strike a child in a manner likely to cause harm it is right that if the child dies I may be charged with manslaughter . |
| 9 | Blanche : I guess it is just that I have — old-fashioned ideals ! |
| 10 | ‘ Because if he really is the sort of reporter you claim he is then that would be playing right into his hands by making him think I 'm trying to hide something . |
| 11 | Well , I certainly will take it up if I get a copy letter , I mean it is obviously that some departments act differently , and I understand that in any case this is only a letter from the secretary , it 's not him , so I mean , I 'm quite happy to take it up if I get the copy of that , and explain that this department act , does rather differently from some of the others . |
| 12 | I mean it 's just that the |
| 13 | I mean it 's enough that he pays lipservice to it now which you know would n't have even been recognised . |
| 14 | But listening to you make that case it 's very similar to reading the great debate on franchise reform in this House in the last century , when people said we should be included and that people like us should be able to have the vote and put people into Parliament , it 's I mean it was just that you were you were making that plea about pro that the Board should be representative as being like the group who are benefiting . |
| 15 | And the boatman said : ‘ Tell me which boat it is so that I will know which boat not to look under . ’ |
| 16 | Mark : ‘ I think it 's just that there 's aggression there . |
| 17 | I think it 's just that he arrived at the same conclusions . |
| 18 | But I think it 's just that the winter weather keeps the birds away . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Yeah , so I said well you know because I was thinking oh god if I go to college and she 's off bloody sick all the time , but I think it 's just that she 's tired and you know |
| 21 | No , I think it 's just that it just seems to be like this every year now Peter , that everybody tends to erm wait until the last minute . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I think it is right that everyone should be given the freedom to choose whether or not they want to work in a smoking or non-smoking office and separate areas created to cater for both factions . |
| 24 | So you won , Ragu , and in retrospect I think it was right that you did . |
| 25 | I think it was more that she wanted to get rid of Wyatt . |
| 26 | I think it was now that Lili decided I stood in need of care . |
| 27 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 28 | I do it 's just that I |