Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 2 | I was n't expecting a miraculous transformation , you see , I was expecting the Belinda I 've come to know and love . ’ |
| 3 | I was expecting the lads soon , anyway , as they were coming to pick me up if I had not arrived by lunch-time and it was noon already . |
| 4 | ‘ You were expecting the Isley Brothers ? ’ |
| 5 | It was worse , far worse this time , because she was expecting the pain , the discomfort , the sharp jabbing of the stones . |
| 6 | This might lead her to change her expectation of the average level of prices ; after all , if she is rational she must know that unpredictable movements in aggregate demand can occur and that one symptom of them is that the price in her island is higher than she was expecting the average to be . |
| 7 | ‘ We were expecting the go-ahead , ’ says the BBC , ‘ but suddenly they all said no , without a reason . ’ |
| 8 | Oh , that they knew er something of the Hebrew scriptures because they were expecting the Messiah were n't they ? |
| 9 | I do n't know whether he was expecting the water to burst or what it was . |