Example sentences of "[be] expect [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , if we are expecting our advertising to work in a particular way , against a particular sub-group of consumers , we should do our research in such a way that it will show up this sort of effect . |
| 2 | Perhaps he should have been expecting her question . |
| 3 | Investors have been expecting whatever government that emerges from the general elections on June 6th to lower interest rates and devalue the peseta , in order to revive Spain 's flagging economy . |
| 4 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 5 | He sounded as though he 'd been expecting my call . |
| 6 | He seemed calm , almost as if he had been expecting his deputy 's treachery . |
| 7 | Victory may have been his Down Under if this Honda had n't cooked its clutch , but he 's been expecting his Michelins to have the upper hand in hot weather . |
| 8 | To her it may seem that not only was she robbed of happiness during her marriage , but that she is now also being denied the right to grieve as well , for there will be those who will be expecting her mourning to be nothing more than a brief bow to convention , followed by a fairly speedy rise in spirits and return to normality . |
| 9 | At this very moment they might be expecting her arrival . |
| 10 | ‘ I might have done , only I 'm expecting my brother to pin me , I do n't quite know when . |
| 11 | Some 100,000 businesses , mainly in the North and the Midlands , which were expecting their rate bills to fall by at least 50 per cent , will see no significant change , said Mr Banham . |
| 12 | To sort of make out s make sure you 've got this and that so you 're ready for the confinement and er But they only came the last minute when when they were the ma mams were expecting their babies . |
| 13 | Barry Hills is expecting his Cesarewitch winner Nomadic Way to reach the top in due course but his one run this season hardly suggests he will beat Cruising Altitude receiving only 4lb . |
| 14 | Agnes was expecting her second now and Kenneth , back from the wars was re-installed in the upper levels of the department store in Buchanan Street . |
| 15 | ‘ She was expecting our baby . |
| 16 | when I was expecting our John |
| 17 | I was expecting his camels to follow him and understood that he would not come further before they were in view . |
| 18 | Major Dryland went on permanent sick leave , still drawing his Pounds 32,000 officer 's salary , but aware the Army was expecting his resignation . |
| 19 | And so on for several more lines , and all to say he meant to finish with Claire , even though she was expecting his child . |
| 20 | Three weeks earlier they had devoted a page to the story that another of his girlfriends , actress Rebecca Broussard , aged twenty-six , was expecting his baby , revealing that he was ‘ excitedly looking forward to playing daddy , but the bed-jumping Joker has flatly told Rebecca that he had no intention of marrying her . ’ |