Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Again I was expecting military style spick and span . |
2 | Unless er there was any er you know you , you were expecting any problems . |
3 | She was expecting another visit from the police . |
4 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
5 | She was expecting some supper . |
6 | She was expecting bad news ! |
7 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
8 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
9 | A trip to London was planned and they were expecting two visits — one from an elderly relative who 'd been in touch after receiving a holiday postcard and another from two people who used to live in the flat upstairs and had telephoned asking if they could call by . |
10 | In the meantime , he has given the socialists a much-needed shot in the arm which might just save them from the total disaster they were expecting next month . |
11 | In the meantime , he has given the Socialists a much-needed shot in the arm which might just save them from the total disaster they were expecting next month . |
12 | The company said last October that it was expecting 20,000 subscribers by year-end , but at the start of March it had signed just 8,500 to the service . |
13 | It was expected that elimination of the anticipated need to recruit an additional personnel clerk would result in sufficient cost reductions to at least partially cost justify the system . |
14 | Also , it was expected that ability would be more lateralised in men than in women . |
15 | The cooperativity between α-truncated polymerases and CRP is lost at the lac promoter , consequently it was expected that binding of CRP at its target in the -60 region would not lead to the occupancy of lac P1 by the mutant enzymes . |
16 | It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful . |
17 | Melvyn Kelly , prosecuting , said it was expected that committal proceedings would be able to take place in two weeks . |
18 | Although the advantage of real volume planning , an assured outcome , is lost by the new technique , it was expected that cash planning would mean that government expenditure could more easily be related to expected government revenue . |
19 | It was expected that measurement of surface heat radiation would provide clues to the planet 's chemical composition and the reasons behind the planet 's " greenhouse effect " . |
20 | It was expected that input data would be transcribed to the magnetic wire by a process which did not involve the computer , and similarly for output . |
21 | Some people were shocked although it was expected some people are devastated . |
22 | His pale , brilliant eyes on her face , as if he was expecting some reaction , he said deliberately , ‘ I own Ca ’ del Leone . ’ |
23 | ‘ You mean he was expecting another accident ? ’ |