Example sentences of "[pron] be expecting [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was expecting to see rows and rows of beds , but it was n't like that . |
| 2 | And you know I was expecting to share Water Gypsy with Fenella . ’ |
| 3 | As a woman , I was expecting to have difficulties . |
| 4 | ‘ I was expecting to have dinner with a client this evening , but the appointment has been unexpectedly cancelled . ’ |
| 5 | Eighteen months later , in March 1944 , at a second Chinese-sponsored conference at Liuchow , Ho had not only managed to slip back under the nationalist umbrella of the Dong Minh Hoi but , as one of its representatives , was named as a member of a Provisional Government which was expecting to enter Vietnam in the wake of the ‘ liberating ’ Chinese armies . |
| 6 | If you are expecting to hear tracks from their ‘ Ptooff ’ or ‘ Disposable ’ classics here then be prepared to be mightily disappointed . |
| 7 | But if you 're expecting to import data from a PC , then first check the long list of unsupported 1-2-3 commands , each of which generates an error message on the Portfolio . |
| 8 | That means there 'll be no treatment for 150 patients who were expecting to have routine operations over the next 5 weeks starting from Monday . |
| 9 | Patients were excluded from the study if they were pregnant or lactating , if they were expecting to undergo surgery , or if they had a history of concurrent gastric ulceration , renal insufficiency , alcoholism ( pure ethanol intake greater than 100 ml/day ( women ) or 120 ml/day ( men ) , or behaviour consistent with alcohol abuse ) , drug abuse , or language difficulties . |
| 10 | Maynard , Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment Corp indicates that it is expecting to have conversations with friends at Hewlett-Packard Co in the next few weeks about its participation in the Common Open Software Environment . |
| 11 | He 's expecting to see son Gary when he arrives in the North ; he lives in Dad 's old home town of Middlesbrough . |
| 12 | Intel told the Wall Streeter it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |
| 13 | Intel said it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |