Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] expect [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know I was expecting to share Water Gypsy with Fenella . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was expecting to have dinner with a client this evening , but the appointment has been unexpectedly cancelled . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I found I was expected to make progress , entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads . |
| 5 | Souter also refused to reveal his views , stating that he would refrain from commenting on any judicial issues prior to his confirmation hearings which were expected to take place in September 1990 . |
| 6 | Take the case of a hypothetical economy which had had no experience of inflation in its recent history so that the rate of inflation which was expected to take place over the foreseeable future was zero . |
| 7 | The move which was expected to take effect immediately , followed a warning by US Secretary of State James Baker , recently returned from a tour of Russia , Byelarus , Ukraine and Kazakhstan , that the former Soviet republics faced the threat of an imminent social explosion as a result of food shortages . |
| 8 | Both governments also re-emphasized the importance of the completion of the joint Yacyretá dam project [ see p. 34418 ] which was expected to begin operation in 1993 . |
| 9 | The commission , which was expected to begin work immediately , was charged with the organization and supervision of the country 's first pluralist presidential and legislative elections , scheduled for Nov. 15 and Dec. 13 respectively [ see p. 38802 ] . |
| 10 | That means there 'll be no treatment for 150 patients who were expecting to have routine operations over the next 5 weeks starting from Monday . |
| 11 | Eddie Gilfoyle is accused of murdering his wife Paula a fortnight before she was expected to give birth to their first child . |
| 12 | Patients were excluded from the study if they were pregnant or lactating , if they were expecting to undergo surgery , or if they had a history of concurrent gastric ulceration , renal insufficiency , alcoholism ( pure ethanol intake greater than 100 ml/day ( women ) or 120 ml/day ( men ) , or behaviour consistent with alcohol abuse ) , drug abuse , or language difficulties . |
| 13 | They were expected to leave school at fourteen and go out to work to earn a living or take up technical training . |
| 14 | It was found that when the experimenter expected subjects to infer success , they fulfilled the expectation , as they did when they were expected to infer failure . |
| 15 | That system was both perceived and expected to perform three related functions : through election to the House of Commons it was expected to produce a government ; through a purportedly democratic franchise and mode of election , it was expected to confer legitimacy upon the government to govern , subject to the approval of Parliament ; and , through facilitating a choice between parties propounding specific programs , it was expected to influence public policy , the party in government carrying through the promises embodies in its election manifesto . |
| 16 | That rise is not shown in the table , which predates the change , but it was expected to increase VAT 's share of tax revenue to 17 per cent . |
| 17 | His reading was hesitant owing to a stammer that tied his tongue whenever he was expected to give account of himself before the rest of the class . |
| 18 | He was expected to receive life imprisonment in accordance with the government 's new law on terrorism [ see p. 38909 ] . |
| 19 | There were also other things such as places where people were away from home — the Plain Clothes could have as many as twenty or thirty places where people were away from home , and he was expected to pay attention and he would have to go round and visit them all . |