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To predict or believe that something will happen
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He never expected to be discovered.
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To consider obligatory or required.
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To consider reasonably due.
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You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.
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(continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
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To wait for; to await.
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To wait; to stay.
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The process by which somebody expects something.
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Of a woman or female animal, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.
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The expecting mother is enthusiastic about learning childcare.
Yes, and we're expecting another.
He was sending her out and expecting her to return.
She reached the door and looked back, expecting to find him right behind her, but he wasn't.
Are you expecting trouble?
What's the matter, are you expecting a better offer?
He would be expecting my call Saturday night.
You were expecting me.
She wasn't expecting the information.
She wasn't expecting the intensity of sensations in the human world.
Yully asked, not expecting the news.
I keep looking up, expecting to see her standing there.
She braced herself, expecting to feel some sort of rush of energy, like she did when she touched Jule.
She screamed, not expecting the level of sharp pain.
She braced herself, expecting pain when it reached her injury.
Never the less he and Martha have four married years under their belts and are expecting their first child.
He was expecting worse than a cat in Darian's room.
She faced her father, not expecting to see the small crowd of people on the other side of the monument.
He wasn't expecting the question.
He wasn't expecting anyone but Andre to answer.
He's expecting to meet me.
His phone rang, and he answered, expecting the woman to return his call with a few dozen apologies.
Damian grunted, expecting Dusty's message.
We were expecting you at seven-fifteen.
Han slammed the door open, and she squeezed her eyes closed, expecting the light from the hallway to hurt her.
Deidre looked behind her, expecting to see Darkyn behind her and relieved that he wasn't.
He tactfully withdrew to the kitchen to give her privacy, expecting a summary of the conversation when she finished, but none was forthcoming.
A nosy bartender told me Ginger was expecting something a bit more lasting than her attorney had to offer.
Suspecting it had belonged to the goddess who was Death, Wynn still wasn't expecting anyone in their right mind to revive the most dreaded of the deities.
Wynn entered and stopped a few steps into the room, not expecting what was before him.
Deidre wasn't expecting to go through it with the human.
Deidre moved past him timidly, expecting him to attack her.
What are you expecting?
He'd toned down his side of the conversation out of respect for her, not expecting to find her worth talking to and pleased when she was.
He wasn't expecting betrayal on the day of their victory.
She enticed him in a way he wasn't expecting and lived through handling the gem at his neck.
Jessi went to the couch, expecting to see her cousin lying there watching TV, as she did at home.
Swallowing a cry of pain, she pushed herself up and stretched out her arms above her head, expecting the feel of a second set of wooden doors, if she really was in a cellar.
But the truth was that the Boers thought they stood to gain by fighting, while the British, though not expecting war, and acting up till the last month or so on the assumption that serious military preparations were either unnecessary or sufficiently unlikely to be necessary to make them politically inexpedient, had with no less confidence committed themselves to a policy which was impracticable on peaceful terms.
It is true that Hamilton was expecting the arrival of the 42nd Division and of the 2nd French Division within a few days; but his losses had been extremely heavy, there were no depots at hand from which these losses could promptly be made good, and he was inferior to ` the Turks in artillery both as regards calibre of guns and as regards ammunition.
The very few Ottoman guns which had been causing the freshly disembarked troops a good deal of annoyance during the 7th had been withdrawn for fear of capture, the defenders fully expecting a forward move by the Allies.
This programme met with a cool reception; the Poles by now were expecting a new organization from the Peace Congress; the Southern Sla y s desired union with those of their race in Hungary also; the Czechs opposed the division of the administrative commission into two parts; they did not want autonomy for their nation, but incorporation of the German Bohemians in their State, and refused all negotiations.
And she's expecting him--expecting him since yesterday.
The memory was poignant, overshadowed by events that took place after she told Alex she was expecting.
The front door was open, as if they were expecting her.
With renewed caution, the pair followed the chalk arrow, not the stones, expecting any minute to find someone barring their return.
He thought she might be sleeping, but her place was ablaze with lights, and she met him at the door as if expecting him.
She wasn't expecting his gentleness or the level of his interest in exploring her body, a combination that rendered her breathless before her clothes were off.
Several times the telephone rang and he hurried to answer it as if he were expecting a call.
When his warm lips pressed against the soft area behind her ear, she abandoned the knife and turned around, expecting to see a twinkle in his eyes and a smile on his lips.
The highways were quiet on the Monday mid-morning, and they drove the three hours faster than she was expecting.
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