Example sentences of "expecting [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , like so many others , turned up at ‘ Little Dublin ’ last week expecting to see a good game between the Crues and the Super Whites , but there were groans all round when ‘ Mister Carryduff ’ ran on to officiate . |
| 2 | But this much I must tell you — ’ He looked around the chamber , as if expecting to see a silent listener at every corner . |
| 3 | erm we 're not expecting to see a huge amount of discounting in the summer months , so erm because the capacity that was on the market this year is going to very much match the demand from customers |
| 4 | He went to the door , opened it and looked down the steps expecting to see the burly figure of the constable emerge and climb the steps to meet him , but to John 's surprise there was nobody at all . |
| 5 | He looked backwards expecting to see the rear gunner running up the fuselage to report that his gun had jammed . |
| 6 | ‘ Several of my friends went up yesterday , and were expecting to spearhead a big breakthrough . ’ |
| 7 | Any European fan coming to Brazil and expecting to find a national league and knockout cup as in his own country is likely to be bewildered by a combination of 27 regional competitions , a nationwide cup , a national championship , pre-season tournaments and three South American club competitions . |
| 8 | She looked at her husband hopefully , expecting to find an answering smile on his face but he remained as he was , sunk back among the cushions of the armchair , as if turned to stone . |
| 9 | Johnson , as he did at Montrose , also employed much silence , and many who had come to one social occasion or another expecting to hear the grand disquisitioner , found him disappointingly reticent and withdrawn , even if making little antic noises to himself . |
| 10 | The company has consolidated sales and marketing as well as domestic and international activities and is expecting to announce a new sales and marketing executive soon . |
| 11 | Peering into the gloom I moved up , ready for anything , plopped in two comforting nuts , swung across a void , stretched up to creaking jugs and levered up to the arête , fully expecting to face an overhanging wall . |
| 12 | I 'll make sure May and June top up , because I 'm expecting to have a bad month in July , but because I 'm expecting to have a good month , I might as well go on holiday myself . |
| 13 | Univel Inc is n't expecting to have a multi-processor version of UnixWare ready for another 18 months . |
| 14 | I 'll make sure May and June top up , because I 'm expecting to have a bad month in July , but because I 'm expecting to have a good month , I might as well go on holiday myself . |
| 15 | CROONER Des O'Connor is expecting to have the last laugh on his critics by soaring to the top of the Christmas hit parade . |
| 16 | It 's also telling people it was expecting to have an installed Windows 3.1 base of more than 8m systems at the end of ‘ 92 . |
| 17 | In the next five years NASA was expecting to spend a further $15 billion on its plans for space station Freedom . |
| 18 | During 1991 they had recruited 109 graduates and were expecting to recruit a similar number in 1992 . |
| 19 | Shannon allowed the thought to sift through her mind , expecting to feel the usual pain , but there was none . |