Example sentences of "i was expect [verb] [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 . |