Example sentences of "had [been] expect this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 3 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 4 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 5 | The IBM announcement had been expected this month , and the delay is thought to have been occasioned by the need to respond to the Hitachi announcement . |