Example sentences of "expecting him " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing , I was genuinely upset by what had happened ; for another , I knew it was pointless expecting him to change his mind . |
| 2 | I glanced round a couple of times expecting him to appear through the trees with a mouthful of oaths and a loud ‘ Come on , Boyo ! |
| 3 | Istanbul was expecting him . |
| 4 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |
| 5 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |
| 6 | ‘ Rainey put in some fast laps during the final stages of qualifying , so I was expecting him to give me a tough time , ’ said Doohan . |
| 7 | It must be killing him to have the Old Man expecting him to play barman to me ! |
| 8 | His assistant Julian immediately offers me coffee , and explains in apologetic tones that Tony has been called out — ‘ but you 're down for 11.30 ’ — and that he 's expecting him back any moment . |
| 9 | I 'm expecting him to chip-up and two-putt for a five ( the 17th was a par-5 ) , so I 'm thinking we have to do the same in reverse . |
| 10 | I 'm expecting him back at any moment . |
| 11 | You see , my father generally deals with these ; I 'm expecting him back at any moment . |
| 12 | That bastard Montgomery would be expecting him in Retford before long , with the results of his enquiries . |
| 13 | An old woman opened the door — she seemed to be expecting him — and as he went in he turned and instructed me to wait . |
| 14 | Mr Zulfiqar Amin was expecting him . |
| 15 | ‘ The family and surgeon were not expecting him to live , ’ said family friend Patrick Shervington . |
| 16 | They went about their business , expecting him to appear at any moment . |
| 17 | If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up . |
| 18 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
| 19 | He wondered what Berowne was expecting him to do ; find a potential blackmailer or investigate him for double murder ? |
| 20 | He says you 're expecting him , that you were informed he would be coming a few months ago . |
| 21 | By mid- afternoon I have stopped expecting him , ever . |
| 22 | Bailey inhaled sharply and glanced at Kolchinsky , fully expecting him to reprimand her again . |
| 23 | She had not been expecting him . |
| 24 | You were — not expecting him to join you ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Or wishing it , I suppose , ’ she said , expecting him to protest that he still loved her . |
| 26 | She breezed on by , presumably expecting him to follow ; she was heading for a side-entrance to the house that was reached through an overgrown kitchen garden . |
| 27 | Beuno did n't suggest that Elizabeth would be expecting him back , but ate his omelette as casually and thoughtlessly as the squirrel who had moved off to eat nuts in a different hazel tree . |
| 28 | And no one was expecting him . ’ |
| 29 | No one had been expecting him … |
| 30 | Were they expecting him to meet someone ? ’ |