Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I have n't er I suppose I 'm expecting the State to support me . |
| 2 | I 'm expecting the boys for dinner tomorrow and looking forward to it . |
| 3 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 4 | I was n't expecting a miraculous transformation , you see , I was expecting the Belinda I 've come to know and love . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ You were expecting the Isley Brothers ? ’ |
| 7 | It was worse , far worse this time , because she was expecting the pain , the discomfort , the sharp jabbing of the stones . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We are expecting the locals from Backnong back to Chelmsford in the middle of November . |
| 10 | Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year . |
| 11 | ‘ We were expecting the go-ahead , ’ says the BBC , ‘ but suddenly they all said no , without a reason . ’ |
| 12 | Oh , that they knew er something of the Hebrew scriptures because they were expecting the Messiah were n't they ? |
| 13 | It 's expected the Ministry of Defence will receive up to forty tenders for the Delta Wing jet , including nine from overseas . |
| 14 | It 's expected the Williams line-up will be made known next week . |
| 15 | It 's expected the appeal will be heard within the next six to eight weeks , until then Colin French is free on bail . |
| 16 | It 's expect the inquest into the deaths will be completed within the next few months . |
| 17 | The princess , looking tanned and relaxed , led her sons into a waiting minibus when the party arrived in London and it is expected the boys will join their father this weekend . |
| 18 | It is expected the £3 tickets for the show will sell out quickly . |
| 19 | It is expected the increases will be introduced in three annual stages of roughly 5 per cent . |
| 20 | He is expecting the call . ’ |
| 21 | You know , it 's got a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension schemes , papers are gon na flood through the door and annual reports and that sort of thing and it seems to me that all of Goods th the way that this , this pension regulator is deemed to act is that he 's expecting the auditors and the actuaries to whistle blow and |
| 22 | I do n't know whether he was expecting the water to burst or what it was . |