Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] supposed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Christopher and I were supposed to be going on weekend leave to Paris . ’ |
| 2 | He , Eric and I were supposed to keep Blyth entertained . |
| 3 | I were supposed to tape twenty . |
| 4 | Oh , it 's OK for you , let's have an evening of work on the exhibition , your goddam son blew that out of the window once and I was supposed to say , ‘ Yes Lucy , no Lucy , three bags full , Lucy ? ’ |
| 5 | While I was supposed to be at the beck and call of not only my husband but even his parents , his going around with other women was just taken for granted . |
| 6 | I was supposed to be interested because the chap had sometimes been here doing electrical repairs . |
| 7 | As a child of 16 , I was supposed to have some gift of description ; now I have not a particle of descriptive power … . |
| 8 | But the place he took me to after lunch , the Colegio Ponce de Leon , where I was supposed to have rooms , was a rather stark student hostel , and my little room was very small , with just a narrow bed , a table and a chair . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She was quiet and calm , and did n't talk much ( I was supposed to do the talking ) and she said she thought I should come every week , and told me how much it would cost . |
| 11 | But the Neighbours crew dubbed me Bruiser after a scene in which I was supposed to hit Jason , ’ she said . |
| 12 | ‘ I was supposed to have eaten only half my meal , ’ Kylie remembered . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I was supposed to stay with you all day . ’ |
| 14 | I was supposed to be going back to my home , but I finished up driving to Lyle Towers with his clubs and the Open trophy . |
| 15 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 16 | By the time the meeting was over I was in such a state of excitement and fright that I forgot all about the clothing parcel I was supposed to collect . |
| 17 | I was very tomboyish and my parents allowed me a great deal of freedom until that magic day came when I was supposed to become ‘ a little lady ’ . |
| 18 | The only person not wholly in sympathy with this plan was the bartender who complained that I was supposed to be off duty and that the passengers should come to the bar to buy the drinks themselves ; I was syphoning off his tips . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I was supposed to be preparing for my mock A levels in History , English and Politics . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I was supposed to be playing rhythm at the time , but I decided to play a solo on the spur of the moment . |
| 23 | Where was the wave of all-consuming love I was supposed to feel ? |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't know I was supposed to be keeping office-boy hours . ’ |
| 25 | I 've read accounts of that incident in which I was supposed to have smashed everything up in his room . |
| 26 | After all I was supposed to be clever . |
| 27 | When I was n't dozing off in chapel , I was having difficulty in keeping awake in class and , to a greater extent , during prep-time , when I was supposed to be working alone . |
| 28 | Since I had to do something during the hours I was supposed to be with Sophie , I joined the local Labour Party . |
| 29 | I asked myself that question on many occasions and wondered how I was supposed to refresh his and other people 's memories without risking the accusation of going on about it all the time . |
| 30 | I was supposed to be investigating the latest camcorder craze to sweep America — amateur home porn — but found myself dreading the thought of viewing the tapes . |