Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [was/were] supposed to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like communism everyone was supposed to be the same , everyone would have the same house , with the same shed , everyone would have the same stuff in their house , all their doors would be colour co-ordinated and that 's what flats were , the original idea of flats were like co-ordinated living okay . |
| 2 | What happened to my shirt I was supposed to be getting |
| 3 | Erm , I went on a diet last year , to one of these clubs and , within record time got to the weight I was supposed to be , calorie counting and then I had to come off and I found for weeks after feelings of terrible guilt if I ate |
| 4 | Even so , when I stumbled across Miss Diana Dors — a permissive sex-symbol of some notoriety twenty years ago — advancing its claims in a popular magazine and asking us to cast our minds towards ‘ my era back in the fifties ’ , I was not immediately sure whose side she was supposed to be on . |
| 5 | Whether you were of the left or of the right , for 40 years , you knew which side you were supposed to be on , and there were few ideological dilemmas . |
| 6 | A voice for moderation and good order — like many others — but his head as bare as the rest when the bricks started to fly , his body as vulnerable to sabre cuts as his father 's , his countenance indistinguishable to those young and possibly nervous soldiers from the real " physical force " brigade they were supposed to be looking for , who had raised everybody 's temperatures by ambushing and stoning a military escort at Salterhebble . |
| 7 | The political education of the African , qua African , was his first concern , and in his hands Indirect Rule became more genuinely the instrument of regeneration it was supposed to be . |
| 8 | The Prison Officers Association said it was astounding that it was so easy to escape from a building which was supposed to be secure . |
| 9 | The ‘ aye dein' ’ character was the tone of voice from behind me on a bus run which was supposed to be a ‘ Mystery Tour ’ but he gave a detailed commentary on the whole journey . |
| 10 | The detective constable who was supposed to be guarding him was out of the ward at the time chatting up some nurses . |
| 11 | In Diana 's young mind her brother 's gravestone with its simple ‘ In Loving Memory ’ epitaph , was a permanent reminder that , as she now recalls : ‘ I was the girl who was supposed to be a boy . ’ |
| 12 | This , however , is probably unfair on both Moniz and the man whose work he was supposed to be responding to , Jacobsen ( Valenstein 1980 ) . |
| 13 | He wondered what had happened to handsome Georgie , the boy he was supposed to be meeting at the pub on the night of the murder . |
| 14 | It made no complaint against the National Futures Association ( NFA ) , the self-regulatory body which was supposed to be watching Stotler Funds , the firm 's mutual-fund arm . |
| 15 | er , they were meeting and the lad who was supposed to be at the meeting did n't know what they 'd come to decide on . |
| 16 | More of the helplessness of simply not being on the same wavelength as the person you were supposed to be closest to . |
| 17 | What happened to this friend you were supposed to be sleeping with — she throw you out ? ’ |
| 18 | Her sexuality was supposed to be greatly intensified during the first three days and on the fourth day she was supposed to be the most fertile for conception . |
| 19 | Not one drop of paint hit the wall he was supposed to be painting , but it had done a marvellous job of covering the path and half a garage door . |
| 20 | And so this poor woman who was supposed to be asleep , And the problem is that er it 's very difficult to decide whether somebody 's actually unconscious or not if they ca n't move . |
| 21 | He thought you 'd give up and go away , as the woman who was supposed to be writing the book did . |
| 22 | You know where there was that there was the young girl and there was the old wo , oldish woman who was supposed to be a film star or something ? |
| 23 | That nagging doubt , the feeling that something was missing in the woman she was supposed to be . |
| 24 | and that er he was er cos er last week there was supposed to be one of these big like rave things on and it was cancelled at the last minute . |
| 25 | Dawn took her pencil and firmly drew a line down the centre of the sheet of paper they were supposed to be sharing . |
| 26 | Two social workers asked for this to be done , because they were so concerned about the policy they were supposed to be implementing . |
| 27 | He said simply that he had known where to go for it , and moved on to explain that when Hal MacQuillan made a bid for the paper it was supposed to be his personal fortune that was financing it . |
| 28 | In his belt he had a horn container which held a mixture which was supposed to be smeared upon the eyelids under such conditions to increase the density of the clan tattoo . |
| 29 | Soon the fog of freedom is so thick that it is difficult to remember just what song they were supposed to be playing in the first place . |
| 30 | The novel he was supposed to be working on hardly progressed a few hundred words in a week . |