Example sentences of "funny thing [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't make friends easily , but the funny thing is that some of those I went to school with , and was n't so close to , have become good friends in later life . |
| 2 | The funny thing is that people just have n't noticed yet . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , Wales has its Max Boyces , Tom Jones , Shirley Basseys and Shakin' Stevens , but there are n't many singers who actually sing about the country , and the funny thing is that it 's taken me about thirty years to start writing about where I was brought up . |
| 5 | The funny thing is that I never expected to be an artist . |
| 6 | The funny thing is that , although all these changes are for the better , many of them will seem like gimmicks when compared to the personal service a handful of cosmetic companies have always offered . |
| 7 | The funny thing is that you feel terrified to stay and I feel terrified to go . |
| 8 | That gag was consciously played for laughs , of course , but the really funny thing is that the pioneering Australian brands which were on the shelves in the ‘ 70s were actually called the much more comical names of Kanga Rouge and Wallaby wine . |
| 9 | The funny thing is that more kids will now want to buy the record from the stores where it is actually available . |
| 10 | The funny thing is that er if you look at the better dividend funds in the year of the crash , the dividends actually went up , cos dividend yields from companies were good in that year , so people would n't have lost out , their income would have been quite stable . |
| 11 | ( The funny thing is that Jack 's father never knew when his birthday was either . |
| 12 | the funny thing is that if if you know that what you 've got on your head is something acrylic , then you ca n't feel all that good about yourself . |
| 13 | The funny thing is that more kids will now want to buy the record from the stores where it is actually available . |
| 14 | The funny thing was that Uncle George had made no remark about the length of time she 'd been away . |
| 15 | The funny thing was that in a way the old fart was right . |
| 16 | The funny thing was that on the day of the theft a man who often used to come and see us , and was generally regarded as a friend of the house , had been and invited the entire family Zina , myself , and both our son and daughter somewhere miles out of town to go and have a barbecue . |
| 17 | The funny thing was that Lizzy seemed glad to be going . |
| 18 | Yeah but the the funny thing was that if we had n't |
| 19 | Well the funny thing was that er the local Labour party n did n't have did n't have a youth er a youth section . |
| 20 | The trouble was that neither of them was entirely certain he was right , and the funny thing was that people who were n't entirety certain they were right always argued much louder than other people , as if the main person they were trying to convince was themselves . |
| 21 | The funniest thing is that they are all as frightened as one another , but nobody can break the chain . |