Examples of 'had been expecting' in a sentence
Meaning of "had been expecting"
had been expecting: Indicates past anticipation or prediction about a future event or outcome
How to use "had been expecting" in a sentence
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had been expecting
Told them he had been expecting a different visitor.
You are not as perfect as he had been expecting.
Arren had been expecting something like this.
But it seems investors had been expecting better.
Markets had been expecting a quarter point cut.
Apparently his parents had been expecting it.
She had been expecting something much chillier.
Baine looked as if he had been expecting the question.
He had been expecting a bigger mountain to climb.
And the woman had been expecting him.
He had been expecting an open mike night.
Certainly she had been expecting him.
I had been expecting different help from the press.
It is as if she had been expecting me all along.
I had been expecting either more humor or more heart.
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Not the nice quiet night he had been expecting.
Markets had been expecting a decline in crude stocks.
It was the nightmare many had been expecting.
Daksa had been expecting something like this.
Ahead of what analysts had been expecting.
Alex had been expecting a bad reaction.
It actually seemed like he had been expecting it.
She had been expecting this call.
Came out and talked to us as if he had been expecting us.
The engineer had been expecting the call.
An obscure tunnel led in a direction opposite of what we had been expecting.
Mark had been expecting this question.
He looked at me as if he had been expecting to see me.
Jarid had been expecting the question.
But not the family member we had been expecting to lose.
Everyone had been expecting that the universe was expanding.
Later he would explain that it was as if he had been expecting me.
We had been expecting you for supper.
The truck was not the water truck they had been expecting.
But oogway had been expecting this.
It was not the result that people had been expecting.
He had been expecting the worst knowing his circumstance.
It was like he had been expecting my call.
I had been expecting at least an hour wait.
Probably he had been expecting it.
I had been expecting your call since few days.
He was very ill for the last few years so we had been expecting it.
She had been expecting the news.
The man came out and talked to us as if he had been expecting us.
They had been expecting my arrival for some hours.
He had the oddest feeling that someone had been expecting him.
Jack had been expecting the worst.
Their answer was probably not what either of the two women had been expecting.
Clearly he had been expecting someone younger.
But not the studio album that the general public had been expecting.
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Had she dreamed of the garden so often
Then we knew we had the wrong guy
We had so much fun up on the mountain today
