Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor but I haven't a clue.
"But I find nothing here from Sergeant Slocum that he is expecting you," the guard said to his clipboard.
No one is so good a writer that he or she cannot benefit from feedback, and no one is expecting you to freeze your memo in its original form if you can see ways it could be improved.
Luckily, when everyone in the world is expecting you to win the award for best supporting actress, you can get away with giving a speech that is so well planned and tightly nested it will take weeks to unpack, politically, creatively and grammatically.
He said, 'No, everybody is expecting you to do it so go on over there.' " Tommy Lasorda, the former Los Angeles Dodgers manager, who was serving as an honorary coach for Bobby Valentine, found himself in an unenviable position in the sixth inning.
"And she said," he pushed on stubbornly, " 'Just a minute, I will ask my father.' Maybe it was 'Just a moment, I will ask my father.' She wasn't gone very long . . . and then she came back to the phone and said — these were her words exactly — 'My father is expecting you for tea next Sunday at four.' " "And then?" "She asked if I knew the address".
