Example sentences of "[pron] was expect [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was expecting to see rows and rows of beds , but it was n't like that . |
| 2 | And you know I was expecting to share Water Gypsy with Fenella . ’ |
| 3 | As a woman , I was expecting to have difficulties . |
| 4 | ‘ I was expecting to have dinner with a client this evening , but the appointment has been unexpectedly cancelled . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I found I was expected to make progress , entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads . |
| 7 | Eighteen months later , in March 1944 , at a second Chinese-sponsored conference at Liuchow , Ho had not only managed to slip back under the nationalist umbrella of the Dong Minh Hoi but , as one of its representatives , was named as a member of a Provisional Government which was expecting to enter Vietnam in the wake of the ‘ liberating ’ Chinese armies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fragments common to many strains of the AIDS virus had been identified and a candidate vaccine was being developed which was expected to produce antibodies against more than 80 per cent of these strains . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | Eddie Gilfoyle is accused of murdering his wife Paula a fortnight before she was expected to give birth to their first child . |
| 14 | Arturo Enrile — who was expected to succeed Abadia when he retired in May 1992 — as army commander , represented the ascendency of the Philippine Military Academy 's class of 1962 . |
| 15 | On April 8 Fujimori , who was expected to attract APRA and left-wing support in the second round , rejected Llosa 's offer to form a joint government to avoid a run-off ballot " damaging " to the country . |
| 16 | Intel told the Wall Streeter it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |
| 17 | Intel said it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |
| 18 | It was expected to prompt banks and building societies to further reduce mortgage rates , currently averaging just under 12pc . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Soviet Union was South Korea 's second-largest communist trading partner ( after China ) ; in 1989 bilateral trade between the two countries amounted to US$599 million , and in 1990 it was expected to exceed $1,000 million . |
| 21 | It was expected to improve Kim 's prospects in his bid for the presidency in the elections in late 1992 or early 1993 , by expanding his area of support , traditionally based in south-western Cholla province , to include Lee 's power base in Kyongsang in the south-east . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was expected to receive life imprisonment in accordance with the government 's new law on terrorism [ see p. 38909 ] . |
| 25 | He was expected to get Hong Kong or the BBC after endorsing Major over Kinnock . |
| 26 | 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 . |