Example sentences of "expecting this " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived in Þingeyri I was expecting this , the second-biggest town in the area , to be a place worth seeing . |
| 2 | She was expecting this . ’ |
| 3 | I wonder whether our friend Tammuz Malamute is expecting this visitor . ’ |
| 4 | I am not expecting my parents to be reaching the end of their life when they are fortyish but I am likely to be expecting this , although probably unconsciously , when my parents are ninetyish . |
| 5 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 6 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 7 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 8 | Down on the beach a covering party under Lieutenant Nisbet added to the Japanese confusion , for they rushed reinforcements to the shore , no doubt expecting this raid was made from the sea . |
| 9 | ‘ We were n't expecting this but we have been campaigning to get rid of the car tax for 20 years . |
| 10 | ‘ I was n't expecting this . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You are not , presumably , expecting this murderer , if he exists , to turn his attention to the rest of the family . |
| 12 | Expecting this , he had first tried to flee the city , and in the aftermath of John 's flight the Council passed a decree ( Sacrosancta ) proclaiming the supremacy of the Council over the pope . |
| 13 | ‘ Until last October authorities were expecting this money to be ringfenced so did not consider this client group when they were consulting and drawing up their assessment models , ’ he said . |
| 14 | " Or were you expecting this when you took us into the wood ? " |
| 15 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 16 | Troy looked puzzled for a moment , not expecting this childlike cry from his proud wife . |
| 17 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 18 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 19 | He was not expecting this display of outright defiance . |
| 20 | I think it 's more when we actually see people doing it , but it 's all , it 's a nice idea to give you a little bit of basic just to think about , and again we wo n't be expecting this to be demonstrated to the on this afternoon 's role page , you done all your preparations for that have n't you . |
| 21 | ‘ But I can see you were n't expecting this . ’ |
| 22 | I missed the strike two weeks ago and I was n't expecting this . |
| 23 | Were n't you expecting this ? |
| 24 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |