Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] expect [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know I was expecting to share Water Gypsy with Fenella . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was expecting to have dinner with a client this evening , but the appointment has been unexpectedly cancelled . ’ |
| 3 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 4 | I found I was expected to make progress , entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads . |
| 5 | Eddie Gilfoyle is accused of murdering his wife Paula a fortnight before she was expected to give birth to their first child . |
| 6 | Patients were excluded from the study if they were pregnant or lactating , if they were expecting to undergo surgery , or if they had a history of concurrent gastric ulceration , renal insufficiency , alcoholism ( pure ethanol intake greater than 100 ml/day ( women ) or 120 ml/day ( men ) , or behaviour consistent with alcohol abuse ) , drug abuse , or language difficulties . |
| 7 | They were expected to leave school at fourteen and go out to work to earn a living or take up technical training . |
| 8 | It was found that when the experimenter expected subjects to infer success , they fulfilled the expectation , as they did when they were expected to infer failure . |
| 9 | That system was both perceived and expected to perform three related functions : through election to the House of Commons it was expected to produce a government ; through a purportedly democratic franchise and mode of election , it was expected to confer legitimacy upon the government to govern , subject to the approval of Parliament ; and , through facilitating a choice between parties propounding specific programs , it was expected to influence public policy , the party in government carrying through the promises embodies in its election manifesto . |
| 10 | That rise is not shown in the table , which predates the change , but it was expected to increase VAT 's share of tax revenue to 17 per cent . |
| 11 | His reading was hesitant owing to a stammer that tied his tongue whenever he was expected to give account of himself before the rest of the class . |
| 12 | He was expected to receive life imprisonment in accordance with the government 's new law on terrorism [ see p. 38909 ] . |
| 13 | There were also other things such as places where people were away from home — the Plain Clothes could have as many as twenty or thirty places where people were away from home , and he was expected to pay attention and he would have to go round and visit them all . |