Example sentences of "supposed [to-vb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 'm supposed to go and report to the local polizei tomorrow . ’ |
| 2 | At the opening service in Canterbury cathedral ( 3 July 1958 ) Ramsey muddled his instructions and wandered all round the cathedral looking for where he was supposed to sit and stand . |
| 3 | They used to go all the way out to these erm Searchlight Stations and erm they used to , very often they , they were situated in a , in a sort of pit in a dug out and erm when they arrived of course er the Education Officer had forgotten to tell the , the troops that there was a lecture that they were supposed to attend and er nobody turned up . |
| 4 | Lesley feels it in the sense of there being so few strong female images in the business : ‘ People still have a preconceived , stereotyped ideal of what women in bands are supposed to be and how we 're supposed to perform or behave . ’ |
| 5 | The allied forces were spread like a net to trap an emperor , but as soon as the Emperor touched the net it was supposed to contract and entangle him . |
| 6 | There was something funny about it , as if it had a deliberate mistake you were supposed to spot or something . |
| 7 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 8 | And you 're supposed to try and link it with bigger groups of children , so if you say you say you 've got primary skills |
| 9 | What price then that metaphysical guarantee of social differentiation when it is so easily abolished in the confusion it was supposed to preempt and render impossible ? |
| 10 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 11 | There was a mixed area near the finish in the stadium where press and athletes were supposed to meet and chat convivially after races . |
| 12 | This is not always easy because we often get caught up in activities without thinking about who is really supposed to benefit or who is actually ‘ calling the tune ’ . |
| 13 | No but I mean he has n't supposed to come and , you know not really . |
| 14 | John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) . |
| 15 | And these bloody boys who were supposed to come and help you if you got , they 're whizzing round and they 're |
| 16 | Which was supposed to open and flap back at the end of the world and let her out , resurrected . |
| 17 | The downside of being so quick was that it was an hour before the pub was supposed to open and the support vehicle to arrive . |
| 18 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 19 | James got to Corunna , where the whole force had been supposed to rendezvous and pick up Ormonde , in time to see the last battered casualties arrive , grateful perhaps that , so soon after his own recent sufferings in the Mediterranean , he had been spared this further ordeal . |
| 20 | Missi were supposed to hear and remedy complaints against counts and generally to function as direct lines of communication between court and locality , reporting difficult cases back to the king . |
| 21 | Each celluloid window was two inches smaller all the way round than the gap it was supposed to fill and was held in place by fishing line . |
| 22 | Erm Oh dear this is going to be a long list of things I was supposed to do but did n't . |
| 23 | It 's supposed to do but I think once his treatment has finished we w then w I we need to get an independent assessment |
| 24 | The lightweight ‘ On And On ’ gains pounds as that naggingly effective chorus does what all choruses are supposed to do and lodges itself in your memory banks . |
| 25 | It was something people of his age were not supposed to do and that was enough for him . |
| 26 | They 're not supposed to bite you see , they 're supposed to chase and bark at someone and hold them there by barking and hope right that the police will turn up . |
| 27 | but the trigonometry ones you have to know what they turn into I got some things , a couple of them I was getting stuck on what I supposed to put and then I actually go too far on some 'em , I , I |
| 28 | The timetable chart ( top ) shows how the bus was supposed to run and the one below how it did run . |
| 29 | Much of the earlier American work , highly developed empirically and in its immediate working concepts , was undertaken within a relatively uncritical assumption of a market society , where general ‘ socializing ’ and ‘ commercial ’ functions could be supposed to interact or conflict . |
| 30 | A 200 day tie-up , even when fishermen can take the days when they want , totally ignores the issue of how they are supposed to live and make all that investment worth while . |