Example sentences of "[adv] expecting [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monica had drifted half-way back to the main road , apparently expecting Alice not to reappear . |
| 2 | I know that a lot of blacks are just expecting things to come to them ; they 're sort of free living , it 's our nature to sit down and enjoy life . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you still expecting Adam to join you ? ’ he enquired , an edge of frost creeping into his tone . |
| 4 | She still retained her English habit of noting each day 's weather , always expecting changes , marvelling at the hot sunny days which followed one after the other , almost with monotony . |
| 5 | It was a very contrary thought ; after all , she had been so vague that last night together , making excuses to go back to England and honestly expecting Fernando to override them and come charging after her , exercising the caveman approach that a lot of women , in spite of their liberation , still craved — in this case Ruth , astonishingly , being one of them . |
| 6 | It 's also expecting Sun 's director of US reseller channels Dan Shaver to resign . |
| 7 | ‘ Not only is she living thousands of miles away , in New York , but she 's also expecting twins any day now ! |
| 8 | She had a " tremendous capacity for absorbing work " , often expecting others to achieve the " impossible yesterday " . |
| 9 | One visitor went there expecting obfuscation , for I have read Sartre on art and think that Sartre on cricket would be just as illuminating . |
| 10 | The waiting area was overflowing , with more than 200 marchers anxiously expecting treatment . |
| 11 | She had always laughed , enjoyed the flattery , never expecting love from any of them because she had not loved any of them herself , but this time was different . |