Example sentences of "[pron] [be] expect the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I have n't er I suppose I 'm expecting the State to support me . |
| 2 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 3 | It was worse , far worse this time , because she was expecting the pain , the discomfort , the sharp jabbing of the stones . |
| 4 | This might lead her to change her expectation of the average level of prices ; after all , if she is rational she must know that unpredictable movements in aggregate demand can occur and that one symptom of them is that the price in her island is higher than she was expecting the average to be . |
| 5 | Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year . |
| 6 | ‘ We were expecting the go-ahead , ’ says the BBC , ‘ but suddenly they all said no , without a reason . ’ |
| 7 | Oh , that they knew er something of the Hebrew scriptures because they were expecting the Messiah were n't they ? |
| 8 | It 's expected the Ministry of Defence will receive up to forty tenders for the Delta Wing jet , including nine from overseas . |
| 9 | It 's expected the appeal will be heard within the next six to eight weeks , until then Colin French is free on bail . |
| 10 | It 's expect the inquest into the deaths will be completed within the next few months . |
| 11 | He is expecting the call . ’ |
| 12 | I do n't know whether he was expecting the water to burst or what it was . |