Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] that [det] " 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 | And of course you are right that this must be about happiness . ’ |
5 | But it 's not that that 's keeping him away from tomorrow 's London marathon . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I mean it 's painful , I mean it 's not that this |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It 's just that that just how I I had to be . |
10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
11 | 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 , |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Said they were going out it 's just that that was ages ago though . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Maybe it 's just that those who do n't look do n't survive to tell the tale . |
17 | Do n't get me wrong , I like flashy bass playing and it would be wrong for me to sound as if I did n't approve ; it 's just that these kind of situations are always a trade-off . |
18 | ‘ It 's just that these kind of obsessive-compulsive personalities provide me with research fodder . |
19 | It 's just that some are socially acceptable and available within the law , others are most definitely not . |
20 | It 's just that some people think they look their best by looking terrible . |
21 | It 's just that some of these words say they , they might have used them , I mean I 've done the and the ones but I 've never come upon anyone that 's heard of the , the cant . |
22 | It 's just that some have lasted better than others . |
23 | yep it 's just that some of the cottages tend to be a bit smaller so that it might well be that we can get you something where there 's a perhaps ground floor extension or whatever okay . |
24 | It 's just that some of these of course , the ones that have got like a square textured , |
25 | Well a cos then you can pick them up altogether if , are you with me , if you 're doing the rounds for your friends cos some of them 'll be on there and some 'll be Pick them up from the front , it 's just that some of the stuff will be at the front and some of it wo n't . |
26 | It 's just that this other woman to whom he comes fresh enables him to see himself in a different , more exciting and rejuvenating light . |
27 | there 'd just these straight powers of X , and you could do that and you 'd get to the same answer as we get to it 's just that this is a quicker way of doing it . |
28 | It 's just that this year I have had a lot of weak influencing situations , been on a lot of projects groups and so on , and last year I needed a lot of extra staff . |
29 | or , or whether it 's just that this is the best case that I can promote . |
30 | ‘ It 's just that most people only realise that in dreams . |