Example sentences of "they 're supposed [prep] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depends on the job does n't it , how much they 're using , but if they 're supposed to be using regularly , surely one person . |
| 2 | Erm The address and everything else they 're supposed to be sending . |
| 3 | They 're supposed to be serving all of us . ’ |
| 4 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
| 5 | It 's no secret that those guerrilla bands contain a fair proportion of characters who are just as undesirable as the dictatorial governments they 're supposed to be fighting and who would have no hesitation in disposing of those $60,000 missiles , at a fraction of their cost , to any passing terrorists who , in turn , would have no hesitation in loosing off one of those missiles at a passing Boeing 747 , preferably one packed with five hundred American citizens . |
| 6 | They 'll get all worked up because they 're supposed to be fetching her . |
| 7 | They 're supposed to be giving us a face lift of . . |
| 8 | We 're on the same side and you know and I know that some of the troops are gon na find that , I , my opinion is that some of the troops will find that hard going for eleven weeks unless they know exactly what the hell they 're supposed to be doing in |
| 9 | They 're supposed to be doing it again . |
| 10 | And if your child is dyslexic , reassure them that they are not the only child , there are other children who share this problem , that they in fact are not stupid , or mad — and quite often they think they are mad , they can understand what is wrong with them because they do n't really understand what they 're supposed to be doing . |
| 11 | Well they 're supposed to be opening on Sundays but did n't Texas and all those get fined last year ? |
| 12 | And they 're supposed to be coming boxing day . |
| 13 | They 're supposed to be coming this week but there 's nae sign of them yet . |
| 14 | I 'm very active in the Party in Manchester and er would support the union and the region er , as a constituency er constituency member and I , you know , spend hours every week trying to ke keep this , keep the Party in Manchester going and I think that what we 've actually got , what we 're seeing inside the Parliamentary Party , are a number of people who seem to have forgotten who they 're supposed to be representing . |
| 15 | They 're , they 're , they 're put well , they 're supposed to be putting swear words in it , stuff like that you know so They they just want ordinary common or garden speech cos basically to help sort of like English students actually coming to this country you know ? |
| 16 | Left again , after the brewery ( where they still have the Porter Tun Rooms , a tun being a big barrel not a weight , though not many people know that ) is Whitecross Street and the Barbican entrance , where many tourists go in and some actually find the theatre or gallery they 're supposed to be going to . |
| 17 | Apart from which , this meeting that they 're supposed to be going to have is totally out of order anyway . |
| 18 | Erm which they start they 're supposed to be running together at the same time when they 'll start I do n't know . |