Example sentences of "was expect [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then it was expected a set of scripts for that show would be available in rehearsal form for the Director to peruse , assess and add his contribution . |
| 2 | She was expecting a bill of no more than £50 for the short job , presenter John Stapleton told viewers . |
| 3 | Carver explained that he was expecting a friend in Australia to wire him $1,500 any day . |
| 4 | In January 1989 the Secretary of State for Education and Science said that he was expecting a doubling of student numbers during the next twenty-five years . |
| 5 | Lindner thought he was on his way to Headingley on a similar deal and was expecting a contract to be faxed to him yesterday . |
| 6 | He was expecting a visit from the young woman he had been wooing assiduously and he had carefully orchestrated the evening so that all his housemates were out and he had the house to himself . |
| 7 | Sybil also heard Angy giving Delia her address so it 's reasonable to assume that she was expecting a visit from her some time . |
| 8 | I was expecting a baby at the time . |
| 9 | It was hardly a secret by this time ; even her loose maternity dress could not disguise the fact that she was expecting a baby in six weeks ' time . |
| 10 | He was expecting no visitors at this hour , and swung about in surprise when the door behind him was opened softly , almost stealthily , and the girl Daalny came in . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jeanne was expecting the baby at the end of November 1918 . |
| 13 | Mr Bob Balchin , chairman of the Grant-Maintained Schools Foundation , said yesterday that he was expecting an avalanche of parental ballots after the Easter holidays . |