Example sentences of "[pron] [be] expecting [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I am expecting Crilly and he is late . |
2 | ‘ I 'm expecting visitors later this evening , ’ Talbot said . |
3 | As he no longer wrote to relatives or old war comrades , he explained stiffly , ‘ I 'm expecting word from my daughter in London . |
4 | ‘ Well not then no just to warn him I 'm expecting guests … |
5 | you wan na see this one with location ski jacket on , I 'm expecting snow any minute |
6 | The neck is made from maple , which was a surprise , because I was expecting mahogany . |
7 | I was expecting Jim . ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Did I really have it before I was expecting Annie ? |
10 | I was expecting death in a uniform , but it was just Frank McHugh , a beef-faced truck driver in a cloth cap . |
11 | Again , when I spoke to you during the interims , I was expecting redundancies during the year of , of er , about a thousand . |
12 | I was expecting Caracas . ’ |
13 | Had she been expecting Naylor to be stuck for words or , now that the moment of carrying out the plan he had put to her had arrived , ducking it , then she was disappointed on both counts . |
14 | If you are expecting jokes , they are seldom as good in fact as in prospect . |
15 | Ultrasound scans may be used to give an internal picture , which can help in finding out whether you are expecting twins , whether your baby 's size ties in with your dates , and the position of the placenta in case it is low-lying in late pregnancy — covering the cervix and blocking the baby 's exit ( placenta praevia ) . |
16 | When you 're expecting jam and it turns out to be marmalade it 's quite a shock . |
17 | And you 're expecting dad to spend that as well ? |
18 | You 're expecting people to resent it so you hold back before they can get any ideas about hurting you . ’ |
19 | If you 're expecting trouble it 's worth consulting your doctor early as some treatments work best if started in advance . |
20 | So , changing tack , ‘ You 're expecting Mr Gajdusek today ? ’ she questioned , and when she saw that she was n't getting through , she pointed to her watch and in pidgin English enquired , ‘ What time Mr Gajdusek come ? ’ and was incredulous at the answer . |
21 | Erm , but because last July was very heavy , er , you 're expecting Graham that erm w we might well be showing a down turn again next month and that 's what |
22 | Sunwatchers : if you were expecting Texas Instruments to formally announce the Viking chip before Sun trots out its Viking boxes May 19 , take heart . |
23 | But surely even having second thoughts about marriage was n't enough to prompt that kind of reaction , particularly as Isabelle must have known she was expecting Fabien 's child . |
24 | ‘ Are you saying that Isabelle was pregnant — that she was expecting Fabien 's child when she ran away ? ’ |
25 | ‘ She was expecting Rick Lawrence about six o'clock . |
26 | When Alice said she had to go , because she was expecting Jasper , and stood up , Andrew did too , and seemed to hesitate . |
27 | We are expecting exports to rise by 6 per cent . |
28 | ‘ We are expecting things to pick up generally , ’ he says . |
29 | ‘ We are expecting doctors to review the situation at some stage today . ’ |
30 | ‘ We are expecting 30- plus cars from across the water , including a couple of Aston Martin Ulsters and a Ford TT Special . ’ |