Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I figure that I 'm not going to be offered any more roles as the 41-year-old middleaged neurotic entering a crisis , 'cos I 'm not that any more and I do n't want to play that any more . |
| 2 | I was just that some nights I waken up and you know you can actually hear your heart . |
| 3 | The story was current when I was there that this distinguished classical scholar , so accustomed to dealing with the textual problems of Thucydides and Greek epigraphy , was somewhat disconcerted on arriving at Bletchley station to be greeted by an evacuee urchin , jeering : ‘ I 'll read yer secret writing , guv'nor ! ’ |
| 4 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 5 | And of course you are right that this must be about happiness . ’ |
| 6 | But then again , there are n't that many words rhyming with ‘ Colin ’ are there ? |
| 7 | There are n't that many , but I could do with a few more clothes . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ There are n't that many madmen about , ’ he said . |
| 9 | After all there are n't that many places that can do the sort of development work needed . |
| 10 | The sad fact is , there are n't that many fast shoot-'em up or platform games — like Super Mario — available for the PC . |
| 11 | ‘ There are n't that many words to learn but they are are important ones , ’ said director Gabriel by way of encouragement . |
| 12 | There are nt that many midfielders higher than speed/macca — and basically midfield only score point for goals/assists … so strach is good value , macca is good value , speed is about right . |
| 13 | I was told the rules , there were not that many and most were sensible . |
| 14 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 15 | I was involved in writing the first two drafts of the film , but by the sixth draft there were n't that many of my ideas left . |
| 16 | if there 's somewhere that that we can |
| 17 | One or two shapes moved through the darkness but most people — There 's not that many , Chesarynth realized . |
| 18 | I do n't think there was really that many |
| 19 | But it 's not that that 's keeping him away from tomorrow 's London marathon . |
| 20 | It 's not that that your Margaret ai n't got time to stop there and dry it for her , you know what I mean . |
| 21 | I mean it 's painful , I mean it 's not that this |
| 22 | Well now , it 's not that any of us are exactly against egalitarianism , democracy and ecological responsibility , any more than Americans are supposed to be ( or were , at least in pre-feminist and less health-conscious days ) against motherhood and apple pie . |
| 23 | It 's just that that just how I I had to be . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ said O'Rourke when they had calmed down , ‘ it 's just that that was the gesture Edmund Kean is supposed to have used on the ‘ Is this a dagger ? ’ speech in Macbeth at the New Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , in 1823 . ’ |
| 25 | Well I have n't , it 's just that that people have said , you know , when the permissions available can we see it as soon as possible that was all , I just wondered if that document was available , |
| 26 | You know and maybe it 's just that that there 're so many people out there with nothing to do and they just it 's just a a boredom situation maybe I do n't know . |
| 27 | Said they were going out it 's just that that was ages ago though . |
| 28 | it 's just that all I heard all morning was there 's so many delays there with all the water , surface water erm so I thought well let's try and avoid that . |
| 29 | But it is not political any longer ; it 's just that more people seem to be doing damage to more people , especially old people , single people , those who live alone . |
| 30 | Maybe it 's just that those who do n't look do n't survive to tell the tale . |