Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 2 | Fabien and I were expected to marry — well . |
| 3 | When I arrived in Þingeyri I was expecting this , the second-biggest town in the area , to be a place worth seeing . |
| 4 | ‘ I was expecting a visitor . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Listen , ’ Arty pleaded in desperation , ‘ will you do me a favour and feck off up to see him I told you I was expecting someone . |
| 6 | I was expecting the usual French style of service , with an ice-bucket and a carafe of chilled water , and two glasses containing a small amount of Pernod at the bottom . |
| 7 | ‘ I was expecting you , ’ Vic said , more to Emily than to Mungo . |
| 8 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 9 | I can not remember what I was expecting exactly , but I found this slightly disappointing . |
| 10 | ‘ Rainey put in some fast laps during the final stages of qualifying , so I was expecting him to give me a tough time , ’ said Doohan . |
| 11 | ‘ I was expecting it to be bad , but nothing prepared me for this ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I was expecting you last Wednesday . ‘ |
| 13 | As a woman , I was expecting to have difficulties . |
| 14 | I was expecting something like that . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was expecting his camels to follow him and understood that he would not come further before they were in view . |
| 17 | They 're rather more expensive than I was expecting . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps my slightly jaundiced view stems from the fact that I was expecting that a book based on a workshop on the physical and neuropsychological basis of music would contain some physics , or at the very least some reasonably quantitative science rather than somewhat vague speculations . |
| 19 | Our gentle driving had resulted in 15.6mpg — about what I was expecting — but also a maximum touring range of 300 miles , which I can imagine some owners quibbling with . |
| 20 | I was expecting to see rows and rows of beds , but it was n't like that . |
| 21 | I was expecting someone quite different ! ’ |
| 22 | Switching over to the Drive channel , keeping the volume low and still using the Strat , I was expecting ‘ Super Champ but louder ’ , but initial results were disappointing . |
| 23 | I 'm not over familiar with the works of Ira , Chuck and Sid but Elliott 's sounds are pretty much what I was expecting . |
| 24 | The neck is made from maple , which was a surprise , because I was expecting mahogany . |
| 25 | Tonally there 's a lot more bottom end than I was expecting , and while it would n't pass for the finest of Martins , it 's good enough to fit into any acoustic line-up and would certainly be bright enough to handle picking and single line solos . |
| 26 | I was expecting that at any minute Mum would shout down to find out what was going on but she must have been preoccupied , trying on her new frock . |
| 27 | ‘ I was expecting … well , wires and pipes and exciting levers and things . |
| 28 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
| 29 | With the depressed economy and appalling trade figures ( improved a little , one hopes , by a healthy Christmas ) , I was expecting doom and gloom as I did my recent rounds of the publishing houses . |
| 30 | 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 . |