Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been expecting this " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock .
3 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 .
4 We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous .
5 He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say .
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