Example sentences of "[pron] be expect [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm expecting another call from our informant . |
| 2 | When I arrived in Þingeyri I was expecting this , the second-biggest town in the area , to be a place worth seeing . |
| 3 | I , I was expecting some forty year old white , well dressed , you know Conservative |
| 4 | MacDonald 's hostess Angela Donalis from the city 's Lord Street premises is stocking up for the huge demand which is expected this weekend . |
| 5 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 6 | Unless er there was any er you know you , you were expecting any problems . |
| 7 | Er she has bought her own surgery in er Smethwick , but she comes from er , sh she 's married , she 's got one son and she 's expecting another baby any day now . |
| 8 | Liz , a busy working mother of three , is pictured with promotions executive , Elizabeth Ollier , who is expecting many friends to join in the family celebrations . |
| 9 | Mum Fran , who is expecting another baby in January , added : ‘ We have been very fortunate . |
| 10 | She was expecting another visit from the police . |
| 11 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
| 12 | She was expecting some supper . |
| 13 | She was expecting this . ’ |
| 14 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 15 | We are expecting much more of patients than in the past . |
| 16 | We 're expecting some students to get merit . |
| 17 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 18 | We 're expecting another one in June . |
| 19 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 20 | We were expecting most of the main opposition leaders to have been imprisoned , ’ Mann stated the obvious . |
| 21 | It 's a fairly low risk erm threat at the moment , air strikes are cheap er they 're not particularly dangerous whether they 're effective or not is another matter , er and there 's no immediate come back on the domestic scene because no one is expecting any one state to be the saviour in that particular situation . |
| 22 | Cantona has become so attractive to Leeds that they are expected this week to offer him a two or three-year contract , and Nimes , his French club , a further £800,000 , when the striker 's loan period expires at the end of the season . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe they 're expecting another explosion ? ’ |
| 24 | It 's expected all the redundancies will be achieved voluntarily . |
| 25 | It is expected that traffic travelling southbound on the A5 and M1 , and intending to go west along the North Circular , will be diverted via Brent Cross roundabout . |
| 26 | At the time of writing , a cable link is only available for Brother 930 , 940 and 950i machines , but it is expected that Version 5 will support a cable link for Silver Reed electronics . |
| 27 | Although the built heritage is to be included , it is expected that planning and listing will remain with the Department of the Environment . |
| 28 | By encouraging people to vote against the complex at elections it is expected that legislature will then be able to pass laws and regulations and make institutional changes which will expunge this cancerous growth from American society . |
| 29 | It is expected that adoption of each of these programmes will be delayed and this in turn will affect dates for calls for proposals , publicity events , etc , although we can not tell at the moment how long the delay will last and the consequences it may have . |
| 30 | Although part performance has been abolished , it is expected that equity will continue to intervene : |