Example sentences of "[conj] expecting [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
| 2 | It assumes that you need to organize it for yourself rather than expecting other people to be responsible for your development . |
| 3 | Having done this and expecting immediate reprisals , it then runs for cover . |
| 4 | People are interpreting other people 's language — and expecting other people to interpret their own — in this way all the time , apparently with a surprising degree of accuracy . |
| 5 | People are interpreting other people 's language — and expecting other people to interpret their own — in this way all the time , apparently with a surprising degree of accuracy . |
| 6 | Bernice waited for the Doctor to continue , but he walked on and then glanced sideways at her as if expecting another question . |