Example sentences of "[pron] be expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm expecting visitors later this evening , ’ Talbot said . |
| 2 | ‘ Well not then no just to warn him I 'm expecting guests … |
| 3 | Again , when I spoke to you during the interims , I was expecting redundancies during the year of , of er , about a thousand . |
| 4 | If you are expecting jokes , they are seldom as good in fact as in prospect . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | We are expecting exports to rise by 6 per cent . |
| 7 | ‘ We are expecting things to pick up generally , ’ he says . |
| 8 | ‘ We are expecting doctors to review the situation at some stage today . ’ |
| 9 | I though we were expecting visitors today . " |
| 10 | ‘ They 're expecting results , though , and I have n't done a thing yet . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |