Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be expecting " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 2 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 4 | I think I 'd been expecting something good when I reach the village — a bed for the night , perhaps — but the place was deserted . |
| 5 | And then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much . |
| 6 | I do n't know what I 'd been expecting . |
| 7 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 8 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
| 9 | Then suddenly I had a phone call , which really was out of the blue because if anything I had been expecting a letter . |
| 10 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 11 | ‘ Are you awake , Jane ? ’ asked the voice I had been expecting . |
| 12 | The small government flat I had been expecting turned out instead to be a large if simple village haveli , occupied by Mr Postman 's extended family — his three brothers , their children and Mr Postman 's old mother . |
| 13 | ‘ I must confess , the news it contained was not at all what I had been expecting . |
| 14 | It was three times what she 'd been expecting . |
| 15 | She nodded , as if this was what she 'd been expecting , and then she took what was probably her first real look at her surroundings . |
| 16 | She 'd been easy to surprise ; she 'd been expecting someone else . |
| 17 | From Jeff 's description , she 'd been expecting horns and cloven hoofs ! |
| 18 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 19 | She had been expecting the news , because of her privileged position in the ‘ Petticoat Mafia ’ but it none-the-less visibly upset her . |
| 20 | ‘ Why , Gloria , my dear ! ’ said one of the ladies , putting aside her soup-dish and hurrying across the wide room to welcome them almost , but not quite , as though she had been expecting them . |
| 21 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |
| 22 | She had been expecting a lift which failed to materialise , defending solicitor Mark Blundell told the court . |
| 23 | She had been expecting changes and had steeled herself not to resent them . |
| 24 | She had been expecting Hubert Molland with the parish magazine , which was why she had answered the door . |
| 25 | On the day after Christmas she received the letter from him which she had been expecting . |
| 26 | She had been expecting a small , dusty room filled with paintings draped in cloths that were thick with dust , where air would have a musty scent of old canvas and decay . |
| 27 | She had been expecting him to call , though not quite so soon as this . |
| 28 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 29 | It was death she had been expecting , after all . |
| 30 | It was not what she had been expecting . |