Example sentences of "have been expecting a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crew has been expecting a return to the Gulf . |
| 2 | The stock market has been expecting an announcement all week . |
| 3 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 4 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 5 | Its members , hoteliers , estate agents and other small businessmen , had been expecting a group of 19 ‘ ordinary ’ Russians . |
| 6 | She had been expecting a lift which failed to materialise , defending solicitor Mark Blundell told the court . |
| 7 | He had been expecting a great difference , but not the extent of the hostility that had greeted him and the reality of a giant Worm wielding enormous electrical energy . |
| 8 | Isolated from her sons , Diana had been expecting a visit from Gilbey at Althorp House where she had been staying with her brother , Charles . |
| 9 | Then suddenly I had a phone call , which really was out of the blue because if anything I had been expecting a letter . |
| 10 | Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care . |
| 11 | Sophie had been expecting a house , with a front door and a bell . |
| 12 | She had been expecting a small , dusty room filled with paintings draped in cloths that were thick with dust , where air would have a musty scent of old canvas and decay . |
| 13 | As recently as September 1990 it had been expecting a 2.4 per cent growth for 1991 . |
| 14 | She had been expecting a visit from Rick Lawrence ; if Lou 's predictions were correct she would have changed from her working clothes into something more alluring and put on fresh make-up and perfume to receive him . |
| 15 | Local party officials admit it 's embarrassing — Conservative Central Office had been expecting a contribution of more than eight thousand pounds . |
| 16 | Local party officials admit it 's embarrassing — Conservative Central Office had been expecting a contribution of more than eight thousand pounds . |
| 17 | Most analysts had been expecting a more gradual approach to the complex rationalisation required by the Zeneca split and the recession 's effects on trading . |
| 18 | We had been expecting a much harder game but the Welsh were never in it , thanks to our forwards ’ control . ’ |
| 19 | John Ransome , who had been expecting a first-round tie against Mark Maclean , gratefully accepted the benefit of the Scottish No 1 's withdrawal by ousting fellow Englishman Paul Johnson . |
| 20 | John Ransome , who had been expecting a first-round tie against Mark Maclean , gratefully accepted the benefit of the Scottish No 1 's withdrawal by ousting fellow Englishman Paul Johnson . |
| 21 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |