Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] expect [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm which wo n't be a vast amount , you know , I was expecting a slow start and we 've had a fairly slow start , but you know I 'm not worried by that at all . |
| 2 | We could n't get a babysitter , so I was expecting a cold TV dinner thrown at my head when I rolled back . |
| 3 | I was expecting the usual French style of service , with an ice-bucket and a carafe of chilled water , and two glasses containing a small amount of Pernod at the bottom . |
| 4 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
| 5 | If you were expecting the graceful and chaste fluidity of Swan Lake , you would surely have got the right gunk . |
| 6 | And they 'd only be significant if we were expecting a significant disproportion anyway |
| 7 | We were expecting the American model to arrive in Europe with pleasurable anticipation , accepting its inevitability . |
| 8 | ( Perhaps this was where the first shock to people in the field arose 0 as one said , ‘ we were expecting an all-singing Branson man and what we got was , although he could be very charming , a quiet , distinctly unvibrant and very determined person ’ . ) |
| 9 | They were expecting a three day music festival at this site near Milton Keynes . |
| 10 | They were expecting the finer points of drama and theatre management … instead they were introduced to the skills of the big top . |
| 11 | It was expecting a further 25,000 on Christmas Day . |