Example sentences of "expecting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not reasonable to expect a tenant to have to accept construction works which may differ from those in the building documents and accordingly be less beneficial to the tenant than it may be expecting as a result of what the surveyors may be perceived to notice on an inspection . |
| 2 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 4 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 5 | I see myself drawing closer to Claudia Cohn-Casson , but not necessarily in the way that S. O. Letterman is expecting of me . |
| 6 | Unbeaten all year and even expected to win by his rivals , the 26-year-old had looked odds-on to win the senior world title which British athletics had been expecting of him since he won the junior crown in 1986 . |
| 7 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
| 8 | Justin came from Nablus in Palestine to Ephesus where , according to his own account ( which may not be plain prose ) , he studied with teachers of several different schools — Stoic , Aristotelian , Pythagorean , Platonist — expecting from the last named not only clarity for his mind but light for his soul . |
| 9 | Once you get in the habit of really noticing what you eat , and expecting from the restaurants the same care for quality and ‘ real food ’ value you try to achieve at home , making the healthy choice becomes second nature . |
| 10 | We are expecting in excess of 10,000 redundancies , which will be spread over three years . |
| 11 | It is meaningless as it makes no effort to establish who is doing the expecting in such a typical manner . |
| 12 | well she 's expecting in August |
| 13 | I might have a problem my daughter 's expecting on the twenty first of this month . |
| 14 | I sat in my cell expecting to be called out for execution at any moment . |
| 15 | Not far behind them sat David Thomas and his wife , a jeweller who had looked after the Spencer family for years and sold Diana several pieces : but he was still ‘ just a humble jeweller ’ , and was expecting to be tucked away behind a pillar at the back . |
| 16 | ‘ Darling , this is Miss Huntley , who was expecting to lunch with Angela today . |
| 17 | by the marriage of the testator , unless it appears from the will that at the time it was made the testator was expecting to be married to a particular person , and that he intended that the will ( or a particular disposition in the will ) should not be revoked by that marriage , and that marriage takes place . |
| 18 | I rode Drifter back with the rest of the string and went into breakfast , half expecting to be told I would n't be allowed to ride Fringe . |
| 19 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 20 | They lay up all the following day , expecting to be attacked at any moment , but no enemy showed up . |
| 21 | When we first began to meet and talk in 1963 , he was expecting to be offered a Cabinet post in education if Labour won and he could keep in step for long enough . |
| 22 | Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 . |
| 23 | On the advice of his sister , Alfonso summoned his youngest and only surviving brother who , expecting to be restored to his throne , came willingly . |
| 24 | If he was expecting to be well in the clear at lunchtime , he was mistaken , Blackmoor 's own Paul Tupper carding a marvellous 66 , with seven birdies . |
| 25 | The troops , expecting to be ‘ home by Christmas ’ after a few gallant cavalry charges , held an impressive open air church parade in the Recreation Field and in late August the town gave a lively send off to a detachment of the ‘ Kings Own ’ . |
| 26 | It is a graphic hypothesis , expecting to be tested by succeeding stages of effort . |
| 27 | He carried on bunching the material in his fist , expecting to be stopped any second , until he had the hem of the dress in each hand . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm always expecting to be sucked under one of these juggernauts taking a cross-country short cut . ’ |
| 29 | She is expecting to be met by a local member of Committee staff and so is not surprised when a young Thai dressed formally in dark trousers and white short-sleeved shirt and carrying a dark peaked cap comes up to her and says , ‘ Excuse me , you are waiting for some-one ? ’ |
| 30 | Julie Mills moved into her Edwardian town house in London expecting to just give it a lick of paint . |