Example sentences of "[pron] expected [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the campaign in North Africa ended in success for the Allies in May everyone expected Joe to come home , but his company went straight to Italy . |
| 2 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 3 | I expected Father to chase me , but when I reached the corner and looked back he was just standing there talking to the thin man . |
| 4 | Each evening when we tidied away our papers I expected Edward to invite me over to the Lodge for a drink or a meal , and the invitation was not extended . |
| 5 | In the first investigative session I ever ran I expected pupils to produce a quadratic relationship , or at least a verbal description of one , from a problem involving lines and their intersections . |
| 6 | In the fifth and final match , nobody expected Nestor to pull off more of his Friday night magic . |
| 7 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 8 | Nobody expected Liz to uproot herself , like a woman , like a wife , and follow her husband to America : she was expected to stay where she was , pursuing her own career and pursuing her own inner life , whatever that might be . |
| 9 | Marrie said she expected Stephanie to make the under-21 team in the near future and possibly even the full team . |
| 10 | She expected Nicole to name a restaurant , but instead she named the hotel where she was staying , one of the more expensive hotels in London , and they arranged to meet up that afternoon , in her room . |
| 11 | She expected Lucy to head for their office : no one else was ever in before noon on the top floor . |
| 12 | She paused as though she expected Marion to say something . |
| 13 | Ruby had said she would be at the office again next morning by which time she expected Rain to have found something more profitable for her than keys . |
| 14 | That evening she expected Edward to join them for dinner at the house . |
| 15 | Airships are not all that easily shot down , a disconcerting fact to pilots in the First World War who expected tracer to ignite hydrogen gas at once . |
| 16 | You expected Tarzan to come swinging through the bushes after Jane . |
| 17 | ‘ We expected Uri to bend a few spoons but we did n't expect the viewers to bend the truth , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Besides , it could be very profitable : PR firms set an inflated value on their own services , and they expected others to do the same . |
| 19 | In 1710 financiers in the City of London had formed the South Sea Company to bid for the right to use the privileges they expected Britain to get at the end of the war . |
| 20 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 21 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 22 | They expected diamonds to have a single atomic structure . |
| 23 | They all wanted flattery and nonsense and if they did anything that was n't right they expected people to cover up for them . |
| 24 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |
| 25 | Novell has said it expected Univel to do over $5m worth of business during the quarter just closed . |
| 26 | In a statement issued on March 28 the Mongolian Foreign Ministry announced that it expected Russia to abide by a March 1990 Soviet-Mongolian agreement which stipulated that all Soviet troops would withdraw from Mongolia by Aug. 30 , 1992 [ see p. 37318 ] . |
| 27 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp has filed a patent infringement suit against Conner Peripherals Inc over a patent relating to intelligent disk drives — last year Conner and Alps Electric USA Ltd bought the patents of the bankrupt PrairieTek Corp and Western Digital said it expected Conner to sue it based on two of these PrairieTek patents and on two patents developed by Conner , and its own suit is a pre-emptive strike . |
| 28 | Prof McVie said that he expected drugs to counter rogue genes could be available within seven years . |
| 29 | He expected Willie to ask if there had been any post but there was no response . |
| 30 | The sergeant thought Blanche would be tired after the tension of the previous hour or two , and he expected Blanche to sit at her desk quietly for a few minutes . |