Example sentences of "be that i [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
2 | ‘ It 's that I think you 're gay ! |
3 | The good thing about Sheff Utd ( from SCUMS point of view ) is that I doubt they would go there just to get a draw … they beat SCUM twice last year so might have thought they had a chance . |
4 | All I can say is that I doubt I will be asked to join the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team . |
5 | But what it is that I measure I do not know . |
6 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
7 | But what they ca n't stand is that I hate them when they do n't behave in their own way . |
8 | Although there was not much probability in my case , the answer is that I wish I had . |
9 | ‘ What I mean is that I wish I could snap my fingers and suddenly there 'd be a band playing some soft , slow music . ’ |
10 | ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’ |
11 | I know they are saying ‘ she ca n't sing ’ but the important thing to me is that I know I can . |
12 | What annoys me is that I know I saw the damn thing not too long ago ! |
13 | and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say |
14 | ‘ One thing these workless weeks in Venice have taught me is that I need my profession . |
15 | My recurring nightmare is that I circle it for ever , never able to get off . |
16 | Now the point I 'm trying to make — the reason I sent you to that 2D universe — is that I reckon we 're making the same mistake — about the space of our universe . |
17 | ‘ All I 'm saying is that I think we need to be apart for a while , come down to earth , if you like . |
18 | So , I mean what I 'm saying is that I think we should have a league table if you like of , of attendances , I , I recognise that that may not be popular , but I think it 's going to be one way of sorting out those people who attend every opportunity , and sometimes just to pat an officer on the back . |
19 | What I will say , though , is that I think we killed off Kilmarnock 's challenge at the week-end and , if we do n't go up now , we should be put up against a wall and shot . ’ |
20 | There 's another aspect to what we do , and that is that I think we are part of a very powerful developing movement in education , and it is based on the concept that education should not stop with the terminal rituals of school and college , and that education should be as much part of life , wanting to know , to find out , to get to grips with the body of information and knowledge that 's available in society . |
21 | One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people . |
22 | What does worry me though , is that I think he still thought it was a ‘ female sex aid device ’ ! |
23 | I would say : if you want to talk of my thinking it in such circumstances then the least misleading thing to say is that I think it in saying it . |
24 | All I know is that I think it 's a safe distance for me to drive behind that car at any given time . |
25 | But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health . |
26 | Well , that 's , that 's up to you , but the , what , the point I 'm trying to make is that I think it 's important that you actually consider that before the interview is , is ever , ever takes place , because otherwise you could be caught very flat-footed . |
27 | ‘ What I mean , ’ said Robert , feeling a direct approach was required , ‘ is that I think I am having a nervous breakdown . ’ |
28 | Gravedigger Jose Molina said : ‘ What scares me is that I think I 'll be her first victim . ’ |
29 | Anyway , what I 'm trying to say is that I find myself looking around more . |
30 | All I can say in my defence is that I have nothing now in my life that I would need to hide from you . ’ |