Example sentences of "[noun sg] he was supposed to be " in BNC.
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1 | This , however , is probably unfair on both Moniz and the man whose work he was supposed to be responding to , Jacobsen ( Valenstein 1980 ) . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The novel he was supposed to be working on hardly progressed a few hundred words in a week . |
5 | Jim still carries the scars of his Carry Ons — he fell off the camel he was supposed to be riding and his left arm was badly broken during the making of Doctor , when he had to ride a hospital trolley down a flight of stairs , through a plate-glass window and on to a table . |
6 | I ca n't think of any other reason for him to walk out of the dinner he was supposed to be at . |