Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] meant to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't forget that for tonight at least you and I are meant to be lovers . ’ |
| 2 | She was a mutilated machine , and besides she has already forgotten him : I am meant to be comforted by that ? |
| 3 | And I 'm meant to be on holiday . |
| 4 | I 'm meant to be an actor . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm meant to be riding all Ibn Fayoud 's horses . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm meant to be calm ? |
| 7 | I 'm meant to be fair ? |
| 8 | I was poorly , I said — and now I 'm meant to be lying down in my room . |
| 9 | I 'm meant to be dead , pinned . |
| 10 | I 'm meant to be well now and it 's not much cop . ’ |
| 11 | Me , I 'm meant to be a Catholic . |
| 12 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |
| 13 | Dad I 'm meant to be doing that , is that the top one ? |
| 14 | I 'm meant to be twelve |
| 15 | So you know it 's all I 'm meant to be seeing that Heather one day this week but I have n't rung her . |
| 16 | Erm hang on I 've got quite a lot , I 'm meant to be going to choir tonight but I really ca n't be bothered , I mean |
| 17 | Well I 'm meant to be funny darling . |
| 18 | Words which are meant to be comforting and familiar may be frightening or threatening . |
| 19 | Well , that last statement is not exactly true as I agree with the sentiments of those who have argued that the Exile clubs should not be in the Courage Leagues , which are meant to be for English players . |
| 20 | Words which are meant to be symbols of reality take the place of what they stand for . |
| 21 | Well there are monitoring systems which are meant to be in place a and which may be er are not are not effective enough erm . |
| 22 | But such an individual usually defines him or herself against a body of people who are meant to be homogeneous and standard-issue . |
| 23 | If you look at who are meant to be ‘ Ethnic ’ , white women should realise that they can never be oppressed in the same way as can Black women . |
| 24 | Can you imagine it comrades , you would have a position in which we attempt to put into place a bureaucratic list of people who are meant to be Labour supporters , they are n't Labour members . |
| 25 | That feeling that you are not where you are meant to be . |
| 26 | ‘ Miss Honey tells me that you are meant to be clever , too ! |
| 27 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
| 28 | You 're meant to be collectively the highest strategic decision-making body in the land and here are all these great slices of crucial economic decisions done in a group in which ministers are outnumbered three or four to one by officials . |
| 29 | You 're meant to be thinking about your big ride not a married man . ’ |
| 30 | The next questionnaire is designed to help you look at your work and get clear in your head what you 're meant to be doing and how . |