Example sentences of "she was supposed to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says she was supposed to be bring the money . |
| 2 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps it was this bloke Kennedy she was supposed to be meeting . |
| 4 | She might have backed off , gone into the pub and telephoned for a cab to fetch her ; but Holly knew who she was supposed to be meeting and she would feel foolishly fainthearted next day if she had to confess to being too nervous to see the matter through . |
| 5 | By the time Ellie did finally remember she was supposed to be meeting someone in Dublin , the afternoon was well advanced . |
| 6 | Rolle 's great contemporary St Catherine of Siena ( 1347–80 ) once fell into the fire when she was in ecstasy though she was supposed to be cooking a meal . |
| 7 | She was supposed to be engaged to a wealthy young Jewish boy whom no one ever met , and they began to wonder if he existed . |
| 8 | We 'd had the odd fling even while she was supposed to be engaged to him — the night of the fire was when we started it . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's bad enough just knowing that Isabelle was having an affair with a married man while she was supposed to be engaged to his brother . |
| 10 | that song , she or tune she was supposed to be singing |
| 11 | Not sure where to go , or even if she was supposed to be wandering around , she followed the sound of voices to a room at the back of the house . |
| 12 | He came closer and sat beside her on the grass , close , so that she could hardly concentrate on what she was supposed to be saying . |
| 13 | She was supposed to be suffering from a nervous breakdown , but that could be because the law did n't want anybody talking to her . |
| 14 | She returned to the house at Sutton in Ashfield , Notts , where she was supposed to be babysitting . |
| 15 | And tomorrow she was supposed to be visiting the Monpazier bastide with him . |
| 16 | She was supposed to be sleeping at Lizzy 's house tonight and Lizzy was supposed to be staying over at hers . |
| 17 | She had three years to spend in a beautiful city , reading ; and that was what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 18 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 19 | ‘ No , ’ she whispered , going pale again with fright as she remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 20 | No , she was supposed to be going to stay with a girlfriend from the India days who lived in Perthshire . |