Example sentences of "i [am/are] [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 . |