Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] supposed to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am supposed to be covering a charitable fund-raising event at the City Temple . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I am supposed to be an expert on the industrial novel . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I am supposed to be semi-retired , ’ protested the Doctor lightly . |
| 4 | Am I proud of resorting to stereotypical womanly wiles when I am supposed to be a postmodernist feminist egalitarian ? |
| 5 | I feel as if I am poised somewhere on the edge of a slope , and about to slide down when I am supposed to be climbing up . |
| 6 | I am supposed to be at GHQ . |
| 7 | ‘ I am supposed to be a Nazi spy . ’ |
| 8 | The other question , however , as to what exactly I am supposed to be doing as I sit here , is plainly still a live issue — which is the reason for this intolerably circumstantial disquisition . |
| 9 | I 'm supposed to be an usher — or an usherette in my case , I suppose . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm supposed to be attacking the Windmill at this moment — with my platoon . ’ |
| 11 | But if I 'm supposed to be catching a train to Paris , where the Hell d' you think you 're off to ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do rather a lot of amateur acting , you know , and I 'm supposed to be rather good at accents . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , as you say , I 'm supposed to be there at ten past the hour , and my shift finished at six . |
| 14 | I forget where I 'm supposed to be and what I 've done the day before and whose round it is … ’ |
| 15 | In 1985 , he claimed defensively , ‘ There 's black and white proof I 'm not the killer I 'm supposed to be , I 've only been sent off twice . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know if I want to or not , I just want to know what I 'm supposed to be doing there . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm supposed to be a left winger ’ . |
| 18 | I 'm supposed to be away abroad on business , but sometimes they come home from school and surprise , surprise , here I am . |
| 19 | ‘ I said , ‘ I do n't know what I 'm supposed to be talking about . |
| 20 | I 'm supposed to be helping her to bake bread . |
| 21 | I do n't feel like one , but I 'm supposed to be , well , a physical scientist , so you get that sort of identity thrown at you . |
| 22 | If you want to know how I could tell that from the seventh floor , you have to remember I 'm supposed to be a detective . |
| 23 | Did n't know what I 'm supposed to be doing with that . |
| 24 | I 'm supposed to be cured but now I 'm an addict as well as a failure … . |
| 25 | I 'm supposed to be a lawyer . |
| 26 | She said , ‘ I 'm not sure what lesson I 'm supposed to be finding in all this . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm supposed to be at the Holborn library in ten minutes , ’ the researcher objected . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm supposed to be meeting Gordon Mahoney here at eleven , ’ Donna said . |
| 29 | ‘ Have a cigarette , John , and tell me what I 'm supposed to be doing . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm supposed to be meeting a feller for the pictures at eight o'clock . ’ |