Example sentences of "[was/were] expect [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ She was expecting our baby . |
| 5 | when I was expecting our John |
| 6 | I was expecting his camels to follow him and understood that he would not come further before they were in view . |
| 7 | Major Dryland went on permanent sick leave , still drawing his Pounds 32,000 officer 's salary , but aware the Army was expecting his resignation . |
| 8 | And so on for several more lines , and all to say he meant to finish with Claire , even though she was expecting his child . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |