Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been expect this " in BNC.
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1 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
2 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
3 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
4 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
5 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |