Example sentences of "[adv] expected the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1978 they already expected the measures , not announced until 1981 , to restrict quantities of money held by individuals . |
| 2 | After being so intimately associated with Christ and hearing his parables of the Kingdom and private commentary interpreting those stories , his disciples still expected the Kingdom to come in the material and nationalistic terms of the Old Testament ( Acts 1:6 ) . |
| 3 | It said ‘ Junk Shop ’ outside but I hardly expected the sign to be this literal . |
| 4 | ‘ A fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay ’ was their motto and , if they expected the pay to satisfy them , they also confidently expected the work to satisfy everybody , including themselves . |
| 5 | But their offers were around £400m to £450m , while Littlewoods clearly expected the price of more than £500m . |
| 6 | Czechoslovakia , a democratic state with a mass socialist and trade-union movement , had been handed to the Nazis by the National government , which now expected the labour movement to support a war for Poland , a society much less attractive to democrats let alone socialists . |
| 7 | The scene was so vivid and lifelike you almost expected the bear to move or the tree to bend . |
| 8 | She fully expected the basement door to be bolted . |
| 9 | Well aware that most workers were indifferent to foreign affairs , he fully expected the majority of them to be swept into fratricide by patriotic propaganda if war actually came . |
| 10 | But they were separated from al-Dhouri and Jassim by a line of soldiers clutching their Kalashnikovs , as if they fully expected the platform to be stormed by the pre-pubescent performers . |
| 11 | My fears were shared by youthful friends and even adult relatives at times seemed to ‘ chivvy ’ us along as if they too expected the ghost train to rush by . |
| 12 | But there are still many people shocked by the events of the past few days , who never expected the Army to be prepared to launch rocket and artillery attacks on civilian targets . |
| 13 | Yet they never expected the Duke of Edinburgh to accompany the Queen everywhere , or Mark Phillips to be seen with Princess Anne . |
| 14 | But I never expected the reaction it got coming from me . |
| 15 | ‘ You never expected the news of your engagement to Mr Massingham to stay a secret for long , did you ? ’ |
| 16 | Ghana agreed to provide cheap power , but the Ghanaians never expected the smelter to take as much as 65 per cent of the dam 's power . |
| 17 | I never expected the job to be perfect but I was surprised by the nature of the problem . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew I had landed my 100th winner , ’ Charlie told me ‘ but I never expected the sort of reaction I received from the crowd . |