Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you saying that Isabelle was pregnant — that she was expecting Fabien 's child when she ran away ? ’ |
| 2 | The Palace Hotel was run by a trio of brothers : a burly one-eyed masseur , a half-witted fellow with a pointed head , and a hugely obese young man who joked from his chair in the lobby , from which he rarely stirred , that he was expecting twins . |
| 3 | Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on . |
| 4 | Not only had his troops let him down , but he was expecting Austria and probably the entire German Confederation to enter the war on the allied side . |
| 5 | The neck is made from maple , which was a surprise , because I was expecting mahogany . |
| 6 | When Alice said she had to go , because she was expecting Jasper , and stood up , Andrew did too , and seemed to hesitate . |
| 7 | Did I really have it before I was expecting Annie ? |