Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [am/are] supposed to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just seem to remember vaguely that she 's about twenty-five or six , about five five , hundred and fifteen pounds all where they 're supposed to be , hair that looks like somebody grabbed a handful of stardust and smoothed it over her head . |
| 2 | It does make it worse and if you 've got a lot of things that you 're supposed to be doing , you just think well I ca n't do all of them . |
| 3 | ‘ You wo n't forget , Birdy ’ ( Birdy ? ) ‘ that you 're supposed to be having a headache , will you ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He said to tell you not to forget that you 're supposed to be … ’ she hesitated , plainly uncertain , before adding ‘ … the vulture variety . ’ |
| 5 | Can I remember you that you 're supposed to be working on this for a minimum a minimum of four weeks for about three quarters of an hour a week minimum time ! |
| 6 | What about this 6 foot 5 guy that we 're supposed to be looking at from Rangers . |
| 7 | ‘ Just remember , ’ he shot a look in her direction as he set aside his half-empty cup and strode towards the door , ‘ that we 're supposed to be on parade , Dr Blake , not enjoying ourselves . ’ |
| 8 | well mines the first two weeks and I 'm keeping them off those two days that they 're supposed to be at school |
| 9 | Apart from which , this meeting that they 're supposed to be going to have is totally out of order anyway . |
| 10 | At the other end , advertisers find it difficult to admit that they are supposed to be addressing an audience in middle age and onwards . |
| 11 | As solid insertions into the very hot gas , probes can significantly alter the local properties of a plasma that they are supposed to be measuring . |
| 12 | There are three vital programmes in which you must train your lecturers if they are to be the advisers and guides that they are supposed to be . |
| 13 | ‘ I do rather a lot of amateur acting , you know , and I 'm supposed to be rather good at accents . ’ |
| 14 | I 've just started doing all this and I 'm supposed to be doing section H. |
| 15 | But if I 'm supposed to be catching a train to Paris , where the Hell d' you think you 're off to ? ’ |
| 16 | If I 'm supposed to be doing it . |
| 17 | Anyway , yeah , and so , right I go to Bunnie and I , can you take me home yes , cos I 'm supposed to be going to a pizza to have pizza round my friend 's house , he goes , mm , they 're going , oh we 're starving , you have to go round to somebody 's house , I said he goes well I 'll take you stra , I 'll take you as soon as we 've had something to eat . |
| 18 | Somehow it does n't seem right to count your calories during the week and then suddenly explode into an orgy of indiscriminate gorging when guests come and you are supposed to be the one in control . |
| 19 | And you 're supposed to be down here finding out whether some crazy old man was a double . |
| 20 | and erm then I , I could n't be really active and you 're supposed to be an ac active to be a member of a branch . |
| 21 | well I 'm in the way cos I 'm sitting having my tea and you 're supposed to be sitting having your tea , but you 're playing lorries |
| 22 | See look all that down there , you 've blown it all up , and you 're supposed to be clever |
| 23 | ‘ And we 're supposed to be the Party of the family , ’ said Grunte , piously . |
| 24 | I do n't know if we 're supposed to be talking er French |
| 25 | Afterwards we went to another historic place nearby , the tomb of the first proper emperor of China , Emperor Chin I ; it 's an enormous man-made hill , and there are supposed to be great treasures hidden in the tomb below , perhaps comparable to Tutenkamun , who knows . |
| 26 | And they 're supposed to be the experts on camouflage , she thought ironically . |
| 27 | And they 're supposed to be coming boxing day . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You have to code the numbers of the athletes and they are supposed to be on the inside so you ca n't read them , but they were outside so you could — you could see which one was from Krabbe , Breuer and Moller . |
| 30 | 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 . |