Example sentences of "[pron] was expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Again I was expecting military style spick and span .
2 She was expecting another visit from the police .
3 You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter .
4 She was expecting some supper .
5 She was expecting bad news !
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Also , it was expected that ability would be more lateralised in men than in women .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Melvyn Kelly , prosecuting , said it was expected that committal proceedings would be able to take place in two weeks .
13 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 .
14 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 " .
15 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 .
16 Some people were shocked although it was expected some people are devastated .
17 His pale , brilliant eyes on her face , as if he was expecting some reaction , he said deliberately , ‘ I own Ca ’ del Leone . ’
18 ‘ You mean he was expecting another accident ? ’
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