Example sentences of "[pers pn] 're [adj] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A You 're right to be disappointed with the results of your machine . |
| 2 | Loads of my friends are miserable over the way they look , and the media are basically saying , ‘ Yes , you 're right to be miserable . |
| 3 | You 're right to be concerned . |
| 4 | ‘ I think you 're right to be wary of Andrew , ’ Bridget said thoughtfully . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're right to be careful , ’ he said . |
| 6 | You 're right to be sceptical : we should be indulgent only to a certain point with lovers , whose vanities rival those of politicians . |
| 7 | You 're ashamed to be decent English people , you want us to go crawling and grovelling … . ’ |
| 8 | Sing if you 're Glad to be Gay — Sing if you like it that way … |
| 9 | ‘ You 're wise to be frightened . |
| 10 | ‘ Then you 're unwise to be glad . |
| 11 | See look all that down there , you 've blown it all up , and you 're supposed to be clever |
| 12 | ( Anyone would think you 'd been offered the leading role in the latest Spielberg epic , for God 's sake , you 're supposed to be depressed or something . |
| 13 | You 're supposed to be normal . |
| 14 | You 're supposed to be able to hear its bells ringing under the sea at New Year 's Eve . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 're supposed to be able to walk all the way from here to the coast . ’ |
| 16 | In a Which ? approach to the golden years of youth , when you 're supposed to be rolling joints and learning how to organise a demo , they 're trying to turn students into consumers . |
| 17 | You 're supposed to be ill . |
| 18 | And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living . |
| 19 | You 're lucky to be alive . |
| 20 | you 're unlikely to be able to do anything about it . |
| 21 | But surely we 're right to be terrified ? |
| 22 | ‘ Well , we 're delighted to be able to announce that as from today Mr Calder will be joining the board . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're delighted to be able to use this van — a clear example of our commitment to an improved environment , ’ said Bob Maggs , General Manager of Bristol Energy Centre . |
| 24 | what we 're likely to be short of it seems to me we could end up being twenty four thousand pounds short at the end of the year . |
| 25 | We 're supposed to be bored Yuppies you know . ’ |
| 26 | We 're supposed to be inspiring people with our vision of how things could be different . |
| 27 | to another , which is what we 're supposed to be able to do . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're supposed to be interested in his first marriage and that 's more than thirty years ago , is n't it ? |
| 29 | So I think they 're right to be suspicious , and it 's right for those people who feel they have a role it 's up to them to make it appear interesting and to show them the relevance . |
| 30 | They 're right to be ashamed , but of themselves , not of pop . |