Example sentences of "he [was/were] supposed to be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In thirty-eight minutes flat he was supposed to be addressing a very high-powered seminar on enterprise . |
| 2 | When he was supposed to be playing football he used to watch the parent birds taking stuff to the nest . |
| 3 | The novel he was supposed to be working on hardly progressed a few hundred words in a week . |
| 4 | Later at Clarissa 's theatre she wanted to know why if he was supposed to be a soldier , he was n't confined to barracks or whatever they did to recruits . |
| 5 | For a moment he was not even sure who he was supposed to be . |
| 6 | For a moment he was not even sure who he was supposed to be . |
| 7 | Yesterday Mr David Moores , the club 's chairman and a close friend , said : ‘ He is such a fitness fanatic that last year , when he was supposed to be on five days ’ holiday at my house , he was on my front lawn every morning doing exercises ’ . |
| 8 | He was supposed to be someone you were afraid of . |
| 9 | He did not know who he was supposed to be — the child-wife , the monstrous heroine , the burner of men 's bodies , the woman of independent means , the beloved and expensive son ? |
| 10 | In his early thirties , he was supposed to be the coming man at SIS . |
| 11 | He was supposed to be crossing the Atlantic in a rubber boat . |
| 12 | The tall man looked so bereft at the loss of his luggage , his inability to recall where he was supposed to be staying ; she watched a lot of movies and thought he looked a bit like that gentleman who was always asking people to make his day , but he talked like the man with the funny bird-feather in his hat from ‘ Dallas ’ . |
| 13 | He was supposed to be mad . |
| 14 | He was supposed to be on his beat twelve hours out of every twenty-four , one week by day , the next by night . |
| 15 | Malvolio 's treatment , in Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night , when he was supposed to be mad explains the desirability of keeping such an affliction quiet . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This , however , is probably unfair on both Moniz and the man whose work he was supposed to be responding to , Jacobsen ( Valenstein 1980 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He was supposed to be the paper 's foreign correspondent but instead of filing everyday reports like the other journalists he became obsessed with chasing after so-called spies and spent most of the time commuting between East and West Germany hoping to land the big scoop . ’ |
| 20 | He was supposed to be the leader in this assignment , but how could a man lead going backwards ? |
| 21 | He was supposed to be germinating a television programme for her , on her own topic , about the conscience of an escaped East Berliner . |
| 22 | Now if your lad could tell us just where he was , while he was supposed to be at Longner , and better still , bring us a witness to confirm it , that would go far to get him out of the mire . ’ |
| 23 | He was supposed to be down here on the second part of a double shift . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 26 | I thought he was supposed to be a scientist . |
| 27 | " He was supposed to be admitted to Addenbrooke 's hospital in the afternoon for treatment of a skin complaint . |
| 28 | The Revd Edward Chichester published a pamphlet in 1818 entitled Oppressions and Cruelties of Irish Revenue Officers , in which he described how , in 1810 , a detachment of the army led by Coffey was set upon and disarmed by the country people near Culdaff in Inishowen , and he himself was beaten ‘ until he was supposed to be dead ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought he was supposed to be incarcerating her , not arranging her social life . ’ |
| 30 | He was about to add that he was supposed to be coming to dinner at her flat very soon , then wondered if that was still on , since he had been invited by Alexandra who presumably would now rather eat maggots than go anywhere with him . |