Example sentences of "[was/were] supposed [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how long that they were supposed to last for . |
| 2 | As I took my place with two jamjars in my first Saturday morning kids matinee queue , apprehensive lest the currency had been devalued or even replaced with money , I observed that not only were Royals the heroes in the films but that my choice of cinema was between the Queens and the Royal , and I was warned that before the performance you were supposed to stand for the pianist 's rendition of ‘ God Save the King ’ . |
| 3 | Oh yes , at that particular time , I will tell you that once again er , that was er I was supposed to go for an interview and this was er for the er declaration of intent of , wh which was er supposed to er supposed to be given every year to both the Lothian Regional Council and the District . |
| 4 | If you made a Day of the Dead cake at home you always hid a coin in it , and the person who found it was supposed to live for ever . |
| 5 | The supplying company could not keep up delivery of repaired gearboxes to match the rate at which they failed , and with low availability of their new fleet Provincial had to retain the DMUs it was supposed to replace for a couple or so more years . |
| 6 | It was my first play and it came about by accident , evolving out of that Tolstoy play I was supposed to adapt for the BBC . |
| 7 | Then there was a little conservatory ; but those plants I was supposed to leave for Leo , because they were Dorothy 's special plants and he had special directions . |
| 8 | I ca n't remember his second name ; begins with a G. He was supposed to leave for Aberdeen the day I left , to start some job on the rigs . |
| 9 | The rolled-over ceiling figure was supposed to allow for an increase of some 300,000 bpd in Kuwaiti output by the end of the third quarter . |
| 10 | This was supposed to account for the value of their contribution towards the stockpiling of plutonium as fuel for future reactors . |
| 11 | I do n't know how long that Telegraph was supposed to last for . |
| 12 | She was one of the women we women were supposed to admire , she was supposed to speak for us and to bear testimony to our pain . |
| 13 | Once distant from the history , it is difficult to envisage just how powerful that central imperative was and how often the options available were so narrowly restricted as to exclude most of what the party was supposed to stand for . |
| 14 | If you did n't think of what it would mean to me , what about the clothes she was supposed to model for you ? ’ |