Example sentences of "know [pron] [was/were] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know I was expected . |
| 2 | Something , something in her friend 's tense attitude seemed to say that she did n't want her visitor to know she was expected elsewhere . |
| 3 | It would enable staff to know what was expected of them , to have professional support and encouragement and opportunities provided for future improvement . |
| 4 | Constance , on her side , had become sufficiently worldly to know what was expected of her when she returned home . |
| 5 | ‘ Winters always wanted to know what was expected of him ’ , recalls Roger Uttley . |
| 6 | And you know I was expecting to share Water Gypsy with Fenella . ’ |
| 7 | Even if they are what you think they are , rival agents , how could they have known you were expecting a letter , and how could they have known you were expecting it on that particular night ? ’ |
| 8 | Even if they are what you think they are , rival agents , how could they have known you were expecting a letter , and how could they have known you were expecting it on that particular night ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You knew I was expecting to stay at the hotel , and that was the only reason I agreed to come with you . |
| 11 | Before anything else , I knew I was expected . |
| 12 | He wore a pleased but modest look and Lili looked as though she knew she was expected to appear proud . |
| 13 | The white woman knew she was expected to offer a solution , some medical advance that would undo the damage to her friend 's body , to her life . |
| 14 | Go and enjoy yourselves , ’ adding , with a gravelly laugh , as if he knew they were expecting something else : ‘ There 'll be no collection tonight . ‘ |
| 15 | At home in London she rarely bothered with such irrelevances ; here she knew it was expected of her and accordingly she had showered , dumped her travel-weary jeans into the laundry basket from which they would be rescued by a maid , washed , ironed and returned to her next day , and dressed herself in a loose silk jersey jacket and pants suit , simple and easy enough to please her yet enough of a transformation to satisfy her father and Sally . |
| 16 | By this time every gentleman knew what was expected of him : Cameron never dismounted , he leaned from the saddle and passed the paper down to the angry , helpless proprietor and took it back signed . |
| 17 | After you 'd come to terms with everything and knew what was expected , life became easier . |