Example sentences of "[is] [that] i [verb] n't " in BNC.

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1 Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the
2 It 's that I do n't want it .
3 ‘ My difficulty is that I have n't spent 40 years as an umpire or whatever , and there is a tension between people like that and those like me .
4 I 'm anti clique and what I want to do is open every opportunity and every door , my hesitation in talking to you , is that I have n't figured out how to open all the doors . ’
5 She carried her sandwich over to join him , saying : ‘ My excuse for being down here is that I have n't a moment to spare .
6 ‘ The reason the police have n't come to question you is that I have n't told them about my suspicions . ’
7 The only thing that I 've just thought about actually is window wh in the me on the measurement side rather than anything else is that I have n't Because we 've just had those windows replaced , I have n't finished decorating around the top .
8 Well I you 'll forgive me the disadvantage , I 'm not trying to cop out , but the disadvantage of not having been immediately involved is that I have n't seen that quotation from Michael .
9 The only reason that I 'm enjoying Neighbours again at the moment is that I have n't seen it for month and I 'm trying to work out which characters have changed , which characters are getting married to which other ones .
10 The other thing erm is that I have n't got any leave .
11 My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) .
12 The other thing that is important is that I do n't think you can get anything on the cheap .
13 ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works .
14 Marcus , now solemn , replied , ‘ One answer is that I do n't know what happened .
15 All I hope is that I do n't end up in an office again . ’
16 ‘ The only reason I do n't punch you , ’ I said , ‘ is that I do n't want to come down to your level . ’
17 ‘ Well , the funny thing is that I do n't know really what it 's like because I 'm not in that little room any more .
18 ‘ Nick , ’ he continued with a tone of wry honesty in his voice , ‘ there are some mighty clever people who say I could be President of the United States three years from now , but what no one seems to realise is that I do n't care about that .
19 The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives .
20 The difference between us is that I do n't like this boxing business — and he still loves it , even now .
21 My reservation is that I do n't think the game could sustain it .
22 But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer .
23 ‘ If I have learned anything , ’ she says , ‘ it is that I do n't believe in justice any more . ’
24 All I 'd say is that I do n't quite agree with Stuart 's description of that summer with Oliver .
25 The most amusing part of all this is that I do n't have a lover . ’
26 is that I do n't want him so
27 If I 've got this right , then what you 're saying is that I do n't need to feel any jealousy about the multiplicity of your sexual partners , because you 're married .
28 My answer to that is that I do n't feel that my job is to do PR .
29 The other is that I do n't wish any harm to come to Miss Coleman and she may be safer where she is until they say she 's free to go . ’
30 But part of that problem is that I do n't think the course tutors do perhaps as much as they might , I mean they do nowhere near as much as Shirley does
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