Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] meant to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That feeling that you are not where you are meant to be . |
| 2 | ‘ Miss Honey tells me that you are meant to be clever , too ! |
| 3 | Most of all , although they were meant to be secret , these were secrets that were fairly indifferently kept ; if , indeed , they were kept at all . |
| 4 | I knew that they were sincere and above all that they were meant to be helpful . |
| 5 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
| 6 | They are gifts fit for a king , and so they are meant to be . |
| 7 | For a child of five this was a terrifying experience , although it was meant to be a birthday treat . |
| 8 | Am I right in supposing that one essential quality of poetry is that it is meant to be read aloud ? |
| 9 | Twoflower decided that it was meant to be a chuckle . |
| 10 | ‘ The saddest thing of all about it , ’ he says , ‘ is that it was meant to be the proudest . ’ |
| 11 | And that he was meant to be carried out to sea . " |
| 12 | Do n't forget that for tonight at least you and I are meant to be lovers . ’ |
| 13 | And I 'm meant to be on holiday . |
| 14 | and I was meant to be taking it in today , but I forgot and so I just |
| 15 | The last week 's rehearsal has been a virtual write-off , and you 're meant to be facing a preview audience on Monday . ’ |
| 16 | And she 's meant to be here . |
| 17 | This woman/man is not my life , but if we are meant to be together , we will be . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not sure if we 're meant to be making this up or not , ’ muses Gordon . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not sure if we 're meant to be making this up or not , ’ muses Gordon . |
| 20 | There were hundreds of companies coming to us for funds and they were meant to be writing their business plans properly and cogently . |
| 21 | Fernando loved her and she loved him and they were meant to be together . |
| 22 | The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . |
| 23 | Well , when Wyn had his stethoscope in his ears I wondered if they were meant to be him . |
| 24 | And he 's meant to be really hip shit , shit hot good . |
| 25 | It is the middle of the lambing season and he was meant to be lambing . |
| 26 | and it 's meant to be a really good production . |
| 27 | And if it 's meant to be a surprise attack , why are they making so much bloody noise ? ’ |
| 28 | I 'm not sure if it 's meant to be a guitar cab or a bass cab , but it suits me . |
| 29 | ‘ If it 's meant to be a joke , Headmistress , I do n't think it 's a very funny one , ’ Miss Honey said from the back of the class . |
| 30 | He glanced up at Doyle to see if it was meant to be a joke , but Doyle was not smiling . |