Example sentences of "[pers pn] was expect the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I was n't expecting a miraculous transformation , you see , I was expecting the Belinda I 've come to know and love . ’
2 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 .
3 It was worse , far worse this time , because she was expecting the pain , the discomfort , the sharp jabbing of the stones .
4 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 .
5 I do n't know whether he was expecting the water to burst or what it was .
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