Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] expecting [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you saying that Isabelle was pregnant — that she was expecting Fabien 's child when she ran away ? ’ |
| 2 | The Palace Hotel was run by a trio of brothers : a burly one-eyed masseur , a half-witted fellow with a pointed head , and a hugely obese young man who joked from his chair in the lobby , from which he rarely stirred , that he was expecting twins . |
| 3 | And you 're expecting dad to spend that as well ? |
| 4 | If you are expecting jokes , they are seldom as good in fact as in prospect . |
| 5 | If you 're expecting trouble it 's worth consulting your doctor early as some treatments work best if started in advance . |
| 6 | Sunwatchers : if you were expecting Texas Instruments to formally announce the Viking chip before Sun trots out its Viking boxes May 19 , take heart . |
| 7 | I looked like a rag doll , and they were expecting princess Voluptua . |
| 8 | Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on . |
| 9 | Not only had his troops let him down , but he was expecting Austria and probably the entire German Confederation to enter the war on the allied side . |
| 10 | The neck is made from maple , which was a surprise , because I was expecting mahogany . |
| 11 | When Alice said she had to go , because she was expecting Jasper , and stood up , Andrew did too , and seemed to hesitate . |
| 12 | Did I really have it before I was expecting Annie ? |
| 13 | Ultrasound scans may be used to give an internal picture , which can help in finding out whether you are expecting twins , whether your baby 's size ties in with your dates , and the position of the placenta in case it is low-lying in late pregnancy — covering the cervix and blocking the baby 's exit ( placenta praevia ) . |
| 14 | When you 're expecting jam and it turns out to be marmalade it 's quite a shock . |
| 15 | I though we were expecting visitors today . " |
| 16 | I wore my trusty Scarpa Trionic Mantas ( £106 ) for the whole trek , as we were expecting snow and would therefore need the compatible Yeti Gaiters that help make the boots virtually waterproof . |