Example sentences of "[verb] [be] expect [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The golfing world has been expecting great things from Norman for years . |
| 2 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
| 3 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 4 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 5 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 6 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |