Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps my slightly jaundiced view stems from the fact that I was expecting that a book based on a workshop on the physical and neuropsychological basis of music would contain some physics , or at the very least some reasonably quantitative science rather than somewhat vague speculations . |
| 2 | I have to admit that I was expecting something rather special from him , but listening to the first instalment in his survey of the sonatas has only strengthened my opinion that it seems almost impossible for one pianist to attain a consistent level of achievement in all of the sonatas . |
| 3 | The nagging doubt remains , however , that the thing might have looked blue to me , and that I had simply not realised that it was to the thing 's colour that I was expected to respond . |
| 4 | I had immediately the sensation that I was expected . |
| 5 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 6 | played rather a dirty trick on me because he did n't tell me that I was expected to make a speech . |
| 7 | It had been announced only a month ago that she was expecting her first child and would probably be leaving after the spring term . |
| 8 | It was hardly a secret by this time ; even her loose maternity dress could not disguise the fact that she was expecting a baby in six weeks ' time . |
| 9 | I could see that she was expecting a baby . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you saying that Isabelle was pregnant — that she was expecting Fabien 's child when she ran away ? ’ |
| 11 | Sybil also heard Angy giving Delia her address so it 's reasonable to assume that she was expecting a visit from her some time . |
| 12 | But Veronica had stopped short , perhaps embarrassed by making these revelations to a stranger , and Loretta had a distinct feeling that she was expected to go now . |
| 13 | And it was wonderful to have heard from Liz today , when her cousin had rung to wish her a happy birthday , that she was expected to be discharged from hospital in about a week 's time . |
| 14 | She was a maid , it seemed , by the name of Dagmar , and , ‘ You will come , ’ she smiled , and Fabia , realising that she was expected , stepped over the threshold to see Lubor coming from a door a good way up the hall . |
| 15 | The company said last October that it was expecting 20,000 subscribers by year-end , but at the start of March it had signed just 8,500 to the service . |
| 16 | This claim was based on the perception that ( i ) no police had been deployed to counter the attack , despite warnings that it was expected ; ( ii ) police had dispersed residents from barricades which they had erected to protect themselves ; and ( ii ) several of the attackers had arrived in police armoured vehicles and had later been escorted back to the hostel by police . |
| 17 | Mr Bob Balchin , chairman of the Grant-Maintained Schools Foundation , said yesterday that he was expecting an avalanche of parental ballots after the Easter holidays . |
| 18 | When he was in his early 20s Richard Baxter felt so ill that he was expecting to die fairly soon . |
| 19 | Carver explained that he was expecting a friend in Australia to wire him $1,500 any day . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In January 1989 the Secretary of State for Education and Science said that he was expecting a doubling of student numbers during the next twenty-five years . |
| 22 | The real truth about Crabb will never be known , but it does seem that he was expected by the Russians , was caught and either died of a heart attack or was murdered , and his body dumped over the side as the ships left Portsmouth . |
| 23 | He soon realised , though , that he was expected to listen to me as well . |
| 24 | Now it surprised him that he was expected to declare the pattern and intention behind it all in order that others could understand . |
| 25 | But she confirmed that he was expected to be at the match . |
| 26 | ( That the government was ready for a strike was a widespread interpretation of its appointment of Ian MacGregor to chair the NCB from September 1983 on ; MacGregor chaired British Steel in 1980–1 , a period encompassing its major dispute , and was believed responsible for the major cuts in job levels ; it was assumed that he was expected to achieve the same in the coal industry . ) |
| 27 | He supposed that he was expected to instruct . |
| 28 | European observers very often exaggerated his importance , however ; and the fact that he was expected to accompany the grand vizier on campaign in wartime often drastically reduced his influence on negotiations with foreign diplomats in Constantinople . |