Example sentences of "who [was/were] supposed to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 2 | His ability to upset people and drive wedges between himself and those who were supposed to be his allies was famous . |
| 3 | When her mother answered , she said the stupid thing she always said to those who were supposed to be close to her , ‘ It 's me . ’ |
| 4 | And he had a list which I 've , I 've got there and er I think he got two things suggested that were on his list from the group of people who were supposed to be aware and er about twenty things which he thought maybe they should have thought about , and had n't . |
| 5 | He was told to take God 's word to people who were supposed to be following God . |
| 6 | Shortly after this Marty Stone , our second engineer , and I re-enacted the whole thing for the benefit of two Daily Mirror journalists who were supposed to be writing an article about the work of the Cutter Service , but nothing ever came of this . |
| 7 | Extraordinarily enough for a couple who were supposed to be at such odds , they seem to have no problem over their conversation . |
| 8 | Did they take did enough people like who were supposed to be in , not turn up . |
| 9 | ‘ This is Miss Huntley who was supposed to be having lunch with Angela today . ’ |
| 10 | The God believed in by Jews , Hindus and Christians , is not like the pagan God , Atlas , who was supposed to be underneath the world propping it up on his shoulders . |
| 11 | Barely able to Speak English , adrift in a strange country , Nina Liebermann could find no trace of Mrs Landers , from the West London Synagogue , who was supposed to be at the station . |
| 12 | Taylor was one of the men who was supposed to be responsible for cleaning up Hollywood , but as the sordid details of his life came to light during the murder investigation , Will Hays , knowing he could trust no one in the movie business , placed spies everywhere . |
| 13 | Here was the women whose father he had unsuccessfully defended , to whom he had given a home and a job , who was supposed to be devoted to him . |
| 14 | In Diana 's young mind her brother 's gravestone with its simple ‘ In Loving Memory ’ epitaph , was a permanent reminder that , as she now recalls : ‘ I was the girl who was supposed to be a boy . ’ |
| 15 | Gruesome flogging cartoons and fantasies of violent reprisal dominated the response , and when the magazine crashed down against the garotting packs and the sentimentalists ( and it was not always clear who was supposed to be the real villain ) both humour and artistic quality were sometimes surrendered as hostages to the gout . |
| 16 | And so this poor woman who was supposed to be asleep , And the problem is that er it 's very difficult to decide whether somebody 's actually unconscious or not if they ca n't move . |
| 17 | Who was supposed to be responsible for the university students ? |
| 18 | No sooner had Mr Mason joined the group of guests than a servant entered to announce the arrival of an old gipsy woman , who was supposed to be a skilled fortune-teller . |
| 19 | The detective constable who was supposed to be guarding him was out of the ward at the time chatting up some nurses . |
| 20 | He thought you 'd give up and go away , as the woman who was supposed to be writing the book did . |
| 21 | Wickham was left in no doubt who was supposed to be in control of the interview . |
| 22 | Even now , I remain uncertain who was supposed to be doing what . |
| 23 | ‘ O Jesus ! ’ said Quigley , suddenly remembering who was supposed to be in charge around here . |
| 24 | In his panegyric on Majorian , Sidonius Apollinaris records the defeat of Chlodio , who was supposed to be the father of Merovech , at the vicus Helena in Artois . |
| 25 | Another thing she could n't step in , and do it over the head with someone who was supposed to be doing on that March . |
| 26 | You know where there was that there was the young girl and there was the old wo , oldish woman who was supposed to be a film star or something ? |
| 27 | er , they were meeting and the lad who was supposed to be at the meeting did n't know what they 'd come to decide on . |
| 28 | Then we had erm , the other people next door , the woman erm , who was supposed to be a man-eater , we 'd actually looked round her house and it was ident identical to ours and we looked , we looked all the way round her house and like , she said , oh yeah , all the building 's the same but just in reverse and like , we met all the neighbours , plus the woman opposite had n't seen the flat , |