Example sentences of "expecting a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WARINGSTOWN are expecting a battle when they begin their defence of the Schweppes All Ireland Cup in Dublin . |
| 2 | For example , if you arrive in my business dressed as a surgeon , a priest or a barrister when I was expecting a banker then we may have initial problems in communicating . |
| 3 | Ardiles claimed : ‘ Everyone was expecting a shock result here , so it was nice to prove the doubters wrong . ’ |
| 4 | Looking to the future , architects are increasingly pessimistic about levels of work with 41 per cent now expecting a fall . |
| 5 | North of the Border , a balance between those architects expecting a rise and those expecting a fall in workloads in the next six months stands at a dismal minus 19 per cent . |
| 6 | In this situation , then , virtually everyone would be expecting a fall in the price of bonds and , therefore , capital losses for bond-holders . |
| 7 | Taxi drivers on the resort island of Jerba , close to the Libyan border , are already expecting a windfall from the transit of foreigners working in Libya . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ Leo went to answer it because we were expecting a constituency worker with some papers . |
| 9 | Tunney had just slipped into his Richie Quick projection and gone indream expecting a swiftkick runaround the cliche track with a preordained victory at the end . |
| 10 | He had been half expecting a confession . |
| 11 | Fournier talked to Flavia about her own reading ; she must promise to come back soon , they told her , they were expecting a houseful on the Quatorze Juillet , nephews and nieces , young married people , des universitaires , they will be interested to meet you . |
| 12 | Her lips were satisfyingly full , tensed to one side as though expecting a blow at any moment . |
| 13 | Then she forced a smile , and said , ‘ Of course , Damien : and proffered a cheek , averted as though she was expecting a blow . |
| 14 | Kermit and his staff watched and waited — they were expecting a blow but they did not or could not comprehend how severe it was to be . |
| 15 | Isambard caught up both , and stood for a moment staring down with a formidable frown at Harry , who nursed his bruised wrists and glared back , expecting a blow and tensing every muscle to receive it without a tremor . |
| 16 | The Scarlets are expecting a capacity 14,500 crowd to bring in around £70,000 . |
| 17 | Her disciples kept her body warm for several days , expecting a resurrection . |
| 18 | To complete the turnaround at the Glasgow-based group , analysts are expecting a call on investors with a rights issue . |
| 19 | Diane — the girl in the next flat — is expecting a call from the hospital . |
| 20 | We 've had to set it up like that , because sometimes people working late would like to pick up calls , expecting a call , or pick up calls on a different handset , . |
| 21 | However , there are other grounds for expecting a reduction in peeking rate with increasing flock size . |
| 22 | I 'm expecting a couple of overseas phone calls at the house . ’ |
| 23 | He said : ‘ It is not a time limited offer but we will be sending the contracts out and expecting a response to them . ’ |
| 24 | sixty percent , I 'm expecting a bailiff at my door any day |
| 25 | Naturally he was fed up , he 's only a child and he was expecting a present . |
| 26 | Jenny was expecting a present . |
| 27 | We were expecting a man , do n't forget . |
| 28 | We may be expecting a promotion at work . |
| 29 | She had also become agnostic , and could see no sense in expecting a God to take the slightest interest in St Andrew 's . |
| 30 | Anyone expecting a story about inflight cyclic stick failure would have been disappointed , however : the piece concerned a helicopter pilot named Paul who had undergone a sex-change operation and is now known as Paula . |