If you tell about something that was supposed to be a secret, we say you let the cat out of the bag.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

And that sort of geared me up for a whole series of novels where I do tons of research, even though I write fiction, which is supposed to be made up,right?"

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Also,sometimes the very people who are supposed to be protecting the girls take advantage of them, and the girls become pregnant.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

This week,six bodies returned, five of them shot and killed by an Afghan policeman they were supposed to be training.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Water is one of the issues that are supposed to be dealt with in final status negotiations.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Writer Pinar Kur was one of them. "She has nothing to do with the military coup that was supposed to be being prepared.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Staring through the magnifying glass, Mikhaiel makes sure that all of the pieces - called tessarae - are exactly where they are supposed to be.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

So it looks like what is supposed to be a simple enumeration or careful count of the nation's population this year will be anything but routine.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

(SPEAKING) It's supposed to be the ultimate home viewing experience, designed to put you in the game or give you the thrill of 3D in a big theater.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Now,what Mr.Netanyahu is doing is really eating up the land that is supposed to be the Palestinian state with more settlements, with more malls, with more confiscation of land."

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The report says these abuses were targeted against the very people they were supposed to be protecting in eastern Congo's provincial capital of Goma, and in surrounding towns and villages.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12