Example sentences of "have [be] expect [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Woolacombe has been expecting him this age , and not a word from the man to anyone ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He 'd been expecting her . |
| 4 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 5 | And the lock did n't turn as he 'd been expecting it to — |
| 6 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Stewart invited him in so he must have been expecting him ’ said Mrs Donnelly . |
| 8 | ‘ You must have been expecting me . ’ |
| 9 | You may have been expecting me , but I sure as hell was n't expecting you ! ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps he knew D'Arcy well enough to have been expecting it . |
| 11 | His body had been expecting her . |
| 12 | No , what she found so overwhelmingly infuriating was that when he had enquired tactfully , some might say , whether she was tired , he clearly had been expecting her to say a polite ‘ yes ’ so that he could then suggest that she had an early night . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | No one had been expecting him … |
| 15 | She had been expecting him to call , though not quite so soon as this . |
| 16 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 17 | Even though he had been expecting it — hoping for it , really — he resented the interruption because it broke his chain of concentration . |
| 18 | While the timing of the news came as a surprise to him , he said , he had been expecting it since February 1992 . |
| 19 | Yes , we 've been expecting you . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been expecting you to ask me that question , ’ she admitted . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been expecting you ever since Dr Watson arrived . ’ |
| 22 | She took a deep breath , and pushed open the door , quite prepared to leave the horde of lounging workmen in no doubt that they had ruined her holiday , but she did n't have the opportunity to utter a word , because the man standing in front of her said briefly , ‘ I 've been expecting you , Miss Stanley . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been expecting you . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been expecting it ever since I heard that they found Uncle Mosse underneath the floorboards . |
| 25 | You have been expecting us . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 27 | With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it . |
| 28 | It does seem , though , that when the death of someone we love is sudden it does not have to be that the shock is greater than when we have been expecting it . |
| 29 | I have been expecting it . |
| 30 | She 's been expecting them — you have n't delivered . ’ |