Example sentences of "[pers pn] be expect [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he no longer wrote to relatives or old war comrades , he explained stiffly , ‘ I 'm expecting word from my daughter in London . |
| 2 | I was expecting death in a uniform , but it was just Frank McHugh , a beef-faced truck driver in a cloth cap . |
| 3 | Again , when I spoke to you during the interims , I was expecting redundancies during the year of , of er , about a thousand . |
| 4 | Had she been expecting Naylor to be stuck for words or , now that the moment of carrying out the plan he had put to her had arrived , ducking it , then she was disappointed on both counts . |
| 5 | ‘ We are expecting 30- plus cars from across the water , including a couple of Aston Martin Ulsters and a Ford TT Special . ’ |
| 6 | One BBC insider said they were expecting complaints from Mr Major about coverage of his early speeches , when his attempts to focus on constitutional issues went largely unreported . |
| 7 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
| 8 | He 's expecting interest from all over Britain and abroad in the sale . |