Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] expect [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was expecting to see rows and rows of beds , but it was n't like that . |
| 2 | And you know I was expecting to share Water Gypsy with Fenella . ’ |
| 3 | As a woman , I was expecting to have difficulties . |
| 4 | ‘ I was expecting to have dinner with a client this evening , but the appointment has been unexpectedly cancelled . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I found I was expected to make progress , entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads . |
| 7 | If you are expecting to hear tracks from their ‘ Ptooff ’ or ‘ Disposable ’ classics here then be prepared to be mightily disappointed . |
| 8 | Compulsory chores are a thing of the past , although you are expected to leave rooms tidy . |
| 9 | But if you 're expecting to import data from a PC , then first check the long list of unsupported 1-2-3 commands , each of which generates an error message on the Portfolio . |
| 10 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 11 | You 're expected to have smash hits all the time in America . |
| 12 | How could she be expected to remain calm ? |
| 13 | I mean there 's chaps like myself — about twelve stone ten pounds — you were expected to carry bags of barley at sixteen stone four ; and sometimes there was n't a job for you in the hard days when there was a lot of men out of work . |
| 14 | Once the main event is over , she is expected to take sons William , 10 , and Harry , eight , off to Althorp . |
| 15 | She is expected to implement measures to address the popular grievances that have helped to fuel the mutiny . |
| 16 | She is expected to implement measures to address the popular grievances that have helped to fuel the mutiny . |
| 17 | And she is expected to accelerate restructuring . |
| 18 | Eddie Gilfoyle is accused of murdering his wife Paula a fortnight before she was expected to give birth to their first child . |
| 19 | He informed a grovelling Tandri that we were expected to reach Aru alive , and that if anything unfortunate befell us Tandri and his crew would find their lives very uncomfortable . |
| 20 | Tomorrow they are expected to visit Stockton Anchorage Drop-in Centre , Dovecot Street . |
| 21 | They are expected to leave Didcot Parkway at . |
| 22 | They are expected to reach £1.65 billion this year . |
| 23 | In the latter , pupils succeed or ‘ pass ’ if they reach certain levels of competence : they are expected to give evidence of having reached a particular level of performance regardless of how they stand in relation to their peers . |
| 24 | They are expected to announce changes to F1 regulations introduced by International Motor Sports Federation ( FISA ) president Max Mosley at an F1 Commission meeting two weeks ago . |
| 25 | They are expected to fetch £300–500,000 ( $550–900,000 ) . |
| 26 | They are expected to halve pollution caused by large commercial vehicles , bringing them into line with regulations governing car exhaust emissions . |
| 27 | They are expected to come word perfect and to research their part , however tiny . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | East Germany had agreed to give them papers allowing them to go to the country of their choice , and they were expected to leave Poland ‘ in the very near future ’ . |
| 30 | They were expected to leave school at fourteen and go out to work to earn a living or take up technical training . |