Example sentences of "[pers pn] was expect [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The neck is made from maple , which was a surprise , because I was expecting mahogany .
2 I was expecting Jim . ’
3 With the depressed economy and appalling trade figures ( improved a little , one hopes , by a healthy Christmas ) , I was expecting doom and gloom as I did my recent rounds of the publishing houses .
4 Did I really have it before I was expecting Annie ?
5 I was expecting death in a uniform , but it was just Frank McHugh , a beef-faced truck driver in a cloth cap .
6 Again , when I spoke to you during the interims , I was expecting redundancies during the year of , of er , about a thousand .
7 I was expecting Caracas . ’
8 But surely even having second thoughts about marriage was n't enough to prompt that kind of reaction , particularly as Isabelle must have known she was expecting Fabien 's child .
9 ‘ Are you saying that Isabelle was pregnant — that she was expecting Fabien 's child when she ran away ? ’
10 She was expecting Rick Lawrence about six o'clock .
11 When Alice said she had to go , because she was expecting Jasper , and stood up , Andrew did too , and seemed to hesitate .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Microsoft senior vice president Paul Maritz told Compaq Computer Corp he was expecting NT to ship by the end of June .
16 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 .
17 That meant he was expecting trouble .
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