Example sentences of "[is] [adv] that [pers pn] ca [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's mostly that I ca n't sleep . ’ |
| 2 | I suspect this is so that we ca n't talk back or properly assess their charges or claims . |
| 3 | It 's so that I ca n't see his face , Merrill thought . |
| 4 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 5 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't understand French . |
| 7 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 8 | It 's just that I ca n't help . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't stand the slur on my grandmother 's memory . |
| 10 | It 's just that I ca n't bear to see someone like you , Ruth , made miserable so worthlessly , and until you get some feeling of respect for yourself you 're never going to snap out of it , and you 'll go on being used as a doormat . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just … ’ she smiled tremulously at him through damp , spiky eyelashes ‘ … it 's just that I ca n't … |
| 12 | Although the money 's not important , it 's just that you ca n't keep asking a girl that age to come out . |
| 13 | say Chris , it 's not that he ca n't though Madge , he just wo n't |
| 14 | It 's not that you ca n't . |
| 15 | So a lot of , a lot of the problems with some of the areas of the work is because you do it so infrequent it 's not that you ca n't do it , it 's that you feel |
| 16 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 17 | That 's why that you ca n't get I I appreciate exactly what Jim 's saying . |