Example sentences of "[pron] [be] expecting [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'm expecting great things of you , too . " |
| 2 | I 'm expecting another call from our informant . |
| 3 | Okay , I was expecting twelve , but ten out of twelve 's not bad , so I 'll start . |
| 4 | When I arrived in Þingeyri I was expecting this , the second-biggest town in the area , to be a place worth seeing . |
| 5 | Again I was expecting military style spick and span . |
| 6 | I , I was expecting some forty year old white , well dressed , you know Conservative |
| 7 | You know , nobody 's expecting three or four sides , right , you 've got quarter of an hour , not erm , you know , if , if you can write a side a half you , you 'll be doing much better than most people , alright , so you 're just thinking about a side really , depending on how big your handwriting is . |
| 8 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 9 | If you are expecting thousands of entries the format will need to be such that it is easy to eliminate incorrect entries . |
| 10 | Unless er there was any er you know you , you were expecting any problems . |
| 11 | Er she has bought her own surgery in er Smethwick , but she comes from er , sh she 's married , she 's got one son and she 's expecting another baby any day now . |
| 12 | Liz , a busy working mother of three , is pictured with promotions executive , Elizabeth Ollier , who is expecting many friends to join in the family celebrations . |
| 13 | Mum Fran , who is expecting another baby in January , added : ‘ We have been very fortunate . |
| 14 | She was expecting another visit from the police . |
| 15 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
| 16 | She was expecting some supper . |
| 17 | She was expecting bad news ! |
| 18 | She was expecting this . ’ |
| 19 | It was the very same story the time oor Isa sent for the stilettos very much against my advice as it happens but they were supposed to be real made-in-England leather uppers available in three colourways , aubergine , aqua or avocado well , as she said herself she was expecting green but nothing quite as Irish as they turned out in fact to be . |
| 20 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 21 | We are expecting much more of patients than in the past . |
| 22 | We are expecting 120 kids — Praise God ! ! |
| 23 | ‘ I was n't in Belfast for the second leg but from what I saw on television they gave Tbilisi a lot of problems and that 's what we are expecting next week . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've had three months of investigation and it 's important that we now look forward to next year 's National when we are expecting large crowds . ’ |
| 25 | We 're expecting good news from the States and there should be a knock-on effect . " |
| 26 | We 're expecting some students to get merit . |
| 27 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 28 | We 're expecting another one in June . |
| 29 | • With Valentine 's day so near to the closing date , we were expecting hundreds of soppy cards , bouquets of flowers , bottles of champagne and heart-shaped chocolates to come flooding into the office — there must have been a postal strike . |
| 30 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |