Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] mean [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm meant to be well now and it 's not much cop . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm meant to be dead , pinned . |
| 3 | I 'm meant to be calm ? |
| 4 | Well I 'm meant to be funny darling . |
| 5 | I 'm meant to be fair ? |
| 6 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 7 | ‘ Miss Honey tells me that you are meant to be clever , too ! |
| 8 | ‘ You 're meant to be respectable , you are , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Perhaps she was meaning to be sympathetic . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They 're meant to be dull . |
| 12 | I knew that they were sincere and above all that they were meant to be helpful . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were meant to be devoid of personal feelings , deadpan , like lawyers who had to defend a case they did n't believe in , who went home at the end of the day leaving all their patients ' foibles filed away in their consulting rooms . |
| 15 | It 's meant to be private . " |
| 16 | No cos it 's meant to be normal conversation . |
| 17 | Though it 's meant to be secret . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's meant to be humane . |
| 19 | Yes , Practical PC is busy — it 's meant to be busy ! |
| 20 | ‘ It 's meant to be theatrical , by which I do n't mean lasers and fireworks . |
| 21 | I like it when she says ‘ Surprise , Surprise ’ , it 's so funny , and I like it when they all start crying , 'cos they 're happy and they all start crying 'cos they 're thick and my mum starts to cry and you say ‘ Why are you crying , it 's meant to be happy ? ’ and she goes ‘ Weaarrh ’ . |
| 22 | We suppose that when somebody says something to us , it is meant to be informative , has some warrant in fact and is not a deliberate obfuscation or falsehood ( for further detail and discussion see Grice 1975 ; Levinson 1983 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) . |
| 23 | He 's meant to be good that good he were n't fucking no good last night keeping up with us was he ? |
| 24 | ‘ It was meant to be temporary , but Elaine wanted me to have you , and I think that influenced the social worker . |
| 25 | When they moved to their cottage it was meant to be temporary … despite the lack of facilities they 've been here over 30 years . |
| 26 | It was meant to be intimidating , and it served that purpose well . |
| 27 | The Shah appropriated the idea of reform to himself an launched what he called his " White Revolution " — white because it was meant to be bloodless . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't know it was meant to be fancy dress though . ’ |
| 29 | I mean , erm , if you did n't know it was meant to be serious , you might think it was a great send off of psychoanalysis , you know . |
| 30 | I thought it was meant to be anonymous . |