Example sentences of "[pron] [be] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I though we were expecting visitors today . " |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Her daughter-in-law Victoria , wife of her younger son Rupert Legge , tells me they are expecting Lady Spencer at their home , Hamswell House , near Bath . |
| 34 | ‘ They 're expecting results , though , and I have n't done a thing yet . ’ |
| 35 | I looked like a rag doll , and they were expecting princess Voluptua . |
| 36 | One BBC insider said they were expecting complaints from Mr Major about coverage of his early speeches , when his attempts to focus on constitutional issues went largely unreported . |
| 37 | They were expecting Club 18–30 , but she would be long gone before that intrusion . |
| 38 | They were expecting Princess Voluptua . ’ |
| 39 | I think they were expecting roller skates and waterfalls . ’ |
| 40 | 52% said they were expecting partner remuneration to fall in absolute terms over the next year . |
| 41 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
| 42 | There are also concerns about how realistic it is to expect directors , let alone auditors , to confirm for one year ahead of the date the accounts are approved that their company will be a going concern . |
| 43 | He is expecting City to come back with a bigger offer . |
| 44 | He 's expecting interest from all over Britain and abroad in the sale . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Microsoft senior vice president Paul Maritz told Compaq Computer Corp he was expecting NT to ship by the end of June . |
| 49 | Microsoft senior vice-president Paul Maritz told Compaq Computer Corp he was expecting NT to ship by the end of June and Sequent Computer Systems Inc was told pretty much the same . |
| 50 | That meant he was expecting trouble . |