Example sentences of "expecting [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose they 're very good and all in white and very ‘ county ’ like those awful people you got to ask me over and it turned out they were n't expecting me at all and there were four of them anyway . |
| 2 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |
| 3 | She glanced at her watch ; already it was well past four and Iris would be expecting her at five . |
| 4 | Luke had n't mentioned company , she thought , but then he was n't expecting her at this ungodly hour — it was nearly eight already . |
| 5 | " Mr. Ingard is expecting us at nine-thirty in the morning , " he said as we got up to go . |