Example sentences of "be expect him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says you 're expecting him , that you were informed he would be coming a few months ago . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's quite small at the moment — he only takes size 5 ½ boots — but we 're expecting him to grow . |
| 3 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
| 4 | It er we are expecting him for the course on that date . |
| 5 | She had not been expecting him . |
| 6 | No one had been expecting him … |
| 7 | She had been expecting him to call , though not quite so soon as this . |
| 8 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 9 | ‘ Woolacombe has been expecting him this age , and not a word from the man to anyone ! ’ |
| 10 | I had n't been expecting him quite so soon . |
| 11 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Stewart invited him in so he must have been expecting him ’ said Mrs Donnelly . |
| 13 | That bastard Montgomery would be expecting him in Retford before long , with the results of his enquiries . |
| 14 | An old woman opened the door — she seemed to be expecting him — and as he went in he turned and instructed me to wait . |
| 15 | Beuno did n't suggest that Elizabeth would be expecting him back , but ate his omelette as casually and thoughtlessly as the squirrel who had moved off to eat nuts in a different hazel tree . |
| 16 | Might she be expecting him to visit her , or at least to send her a message ? |
| 17 | She 's elderly and will be expecting him . ’ |
| 18 | Unlike Courtenay , Finney is not yet wearing his character like a glove and as this was the very first public performance perhaps we should n't be expecting him too . |
| 19 | I 'm expecting him to chip-up and two-putt for a five ( the 17th was a par-5 ) , so I 'm thinking we have to do the same in reverse . |
| 20 | I 'm expecting him back at any moment . |
| 21 | You see , my father generally deals with these ; I 'm expecting him back at any moment . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm expecting him to report and , with five matches in the next four weeks , any player who is not fit for the first game will not necessarily miss the rest of them , ’ said Taylor . |
| 23 | ‘ No , but I 'm expecting him back . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm expecting him shortly and I 'd like you to be present . |
| 25 | ‘ Andy is in good shape and I 'm expecting him to go all the way this year ’ . |
| 26 | Just when we were expecting him home — to phone and tell her like that . |
| 27 | His companions at base camp were expecting him back by dusk at the latest . |
| 28 | They were look they were waiting for him , they were looking for him they were expecting him |
| 29 | His assistant Julian immediately offers me coffee , and explains in apologetic tones that Tony has been called out — ‘ but you 're down for 11.30 ’ — and that he 's expecting him back any moment . |
| 30 | Police say they do n't yet know when Mr Dobbs body will be released but the Gloucestershire coronor 's expecting him to be returned for an inquest |