Example sentences of "i [be] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that I am not meant to vac up the spiders , just their cobwebs . |
| 2 | I 'm strangely drawn to Stuart |
| 3 | I 'm discreetly handcuffed to Detective Sergeant Flavell — McDunn has the key — and we have a couple of burly plain-clothes men with us I strongly suspect are tooled up , but the pressure seems to be off me a bit . |
| 4 | ‘ It may be age , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm rather drawn to adversity and I like a good wash-out ; but nothing happens here except a steady loss of money . |
| 5 | I 'm not given to prudery , but at the thought of some poor woman in the Clerical Grade being allowed to read this … this … whatever it is , I feel a flush of pure shame inside my beard . |
| 6 | I 'm not allowed to Wednesdays cos your mum do n't watch it on a Wednesday ! |
| 7 | I 'm not suited to fatherhood and I had n't any wish to be made ridiculous by paternity suits . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not used to people who only work part-time . |
| 9 | ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm enormously attracted to people who can look after themselves . |
| 11 | However , I was immediately transferred to Glynn , a technical guy who took my fax number with the promise that he would send me a drawing that morning of the necessary mods . |
| 12 | But I was eventually sent to Ghana . |
| 13 | During my years in Oxford , working as I was largely in the field of recent Anglican ecclesiastical history , I was increasingly drawn to Anglicanism . |
| 14 | I was not sent to school . |
| 15 | ‘ I was not engaged to Sir Thomas , Inspector , ’ said Angelina patiently . |
| 16 | I was not born to joy |
| 17 | I had n't deserted my first love , the Salcombe yawl Lisa , but she lived in my home in South Devon , and now that I was officially attached to Sir Edmund Pusey 's Police Liaison Group at the Home Office I had to live in London , and the Crouch was much more accessible . |
| 18 | ‘ I was even taken to hospital at one point thinking I had a hypo coming on , but then we realised that I was actually having panic attacks — a delayed reaction to losing my sight . |
| 19 | I was also referred to passages in Professor Glanville Williams 's monograph on Joint Obligations ( 1949 ) , and to the treatment of the same subject in Chitty on Contracts 26th ed. ( 1989 ) , vol. 1 , paras . |
| 20 | I was never invited to parties by the children I admired at school like Kathryn Watson who had a kilt pinned with a great silver safety pin . |
| 21 | I was greatly attracted to Georgia , and was able to enjoy her company at several film shows or at dinners on evenings when neither of us was working . |
| 22 | The operation was carried out at the National Heart the next day , with the odds improving and I was then transferred to Harefield for five weeks . |
| 23 | I was once introduced to Sir somebody , David Webb I think , who was in charge of the Opera House . |