Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Daak had been brought to join them , Bernice had expected Ace to run to him ; instead , she just smiled crookedly and raised a hand in greeting . |
| 2 | Marcus seemed to expect this , though usually he had little to say to Ludens . |
| 3 | Though ( except for the definition of the bodily Assumption of Mary in November 1950 ) none of these declarations fell into the formal category of infallible as defined at Vatican I , none the less Catholics came to expect authoritative guidance from Rome on all manner of issues — a strong tendency within the Church down to the present day . |
| 4 | Her solar had also been much improved , as if her commissioner had expected more of her than her designers . |
| 5 | Celia had expected this . |
| 6 | Marguerite 's voice was warm when Jenna had expected another burst of either anger or distress . |
| 7 | Terrified , of course she was terrified ; Michael Pope had expected that . |
| 8 | Bill had expected that question , but he could not prevent there coming across his inward eye the memory of the grubby calendar in Onyx 's kitchen , with the new red ring round Thursday the twenty-ninth . |
| 9 | Now that 's fair enough because we 've actually bunged more in in terms of testing , we 're covered in testing , and we 've got temps who are less productive , so to an extent we , we , we , we ou our budget did expect that bump . |
| 10 | The Doctor had expected this to provoke some reaction but the Chelonians remained resolutely silent , their eyes fixed on the big screen that showed a trundling view of their journey through the wastes . |
| 11 | Cromer had expected all his staff to speak Arabic fluently and Garvin , after twenty years in Egypt , spoke the language like a native . |