Example sentences of "what [pron] be [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know if I want to or not , I just want to know what I 'm supposed to be doing there . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I said , ‘ I do n't know what I 'm supposed to be talking about . |
| 3 | Did n't know what I 'm supposed to be doing with that . |
| 4 | ‘ Have a cigarette , John , and tell me what I 'm supposed to be doing . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It ca n't be helping much , if you keep coming up with crazy ideas about what I 'm supposed to be up to . ’ |
| 6 | Erm do you know what I 'm supposed to be doing ? fucking researching and that lot . |
| 7 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 8 | This was partly due to the fact that I did n't really understand what I was supposed to be doing and partly because I had a very intricate felt-pen and biro decoration to complete on my pencil case ( which obviously took priority over maths work ) . |
| 9 | Dolores insisted on accompanying me , and because that was what I was supposed to be doing , escorting her , I did n't raise any objections . |
| 10 | I looked at what I was supposed to be reading . |
| 11 | Or some of what she 's supposed to be doing |
| 12 | First of all , let's look at Barbara , who does n't understand what she 's supposed to be doing , because you 've failed to tell her clearly what her responsibilities are . |
| 13 | She had three years to spend in a beautiful city , reading ; and that was what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 14 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 15 | He came closer and sat beside her on the grass , close , so that she could hardly concentrate on what she was supposed to be saying . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ she whispered , going pale again with fright as she remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 17 | Now stop wasting time and get on with what you 're supposed to be doing . ’ |
| 18 | Is this is this what you 're supposed to be doing ? |
| 19 | If you do n't know what they mean i anything if you do n't know how to do it it 's hard but if you do n't even know what they mean it 's very hard to work out what 's going on is n't it and what you 're supposed to be doing . |
| 20 | I mean technically I think , what you 're supposed to be with every course . |
| 21 | That 's what you 're supposed to be having as well , is n't it expensive . |
| 22 | Make sure your checklist is used too , check out what you 're supposed to be doing . |
| 23 | what we 're likely to be short of it seems to me we could end up being twenty four thousand pounds short at the end of the year . |
| 24 | to another , which is what we 're supposed to be able to do . |
| 25 | What I mean is , ’ Julia stumbled , ‘ perhaps my inglorious life story is n't relevant to what we 're supposed to be doing here . |
| 26 | Yeah can you give us sort of thirty second briefing on what we 're supposed to be developing |
| 27 | but it 's not though , it 's not , it 's her fault for being so bloody stupid and not telling us A , what we 're supposed to be doing and B , the fact that I was not having any lunch to go half an hour , what do you mean ? |
| 28 | But anyway I flared up and said that sort of remark was what we were supposed to be fighting the war about and I went for him . |
| 29 | We have to admit that each one of us could fail in what we were supposed to be doing and in fact then we could work together , that we could forgive each other and that we could support each other in our work . |
| 30 | And if your child is dyslexic , reassure them that they are not the only child , there are other children who share this problem , that they in fact are not stupid , or mad — and quite often they think they are mad , they can understand what is wrong with them because they do n't really understand what they 're supposed to be doing . |