Example sentences of "[pron] expected [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end everyone expected a return on love , demanded a rebate of gratitude or respect . |
| 2 | When the settlers got to Virginia , everyone expected the gentlemen of the party to run things , just as in England . |
| 3 | Nearly 30 millimetres of rain was recorded.Flood warnings had been issued … but no-one expected the river to rise so quickly … surging 10 feet above normal levels . |
| 4 | I expected a fanfare to greet me , or at least for Tony to fall to his knees in admiration . |
| 5 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
| 6 | I expected a hanging , at least . ’ |
| 7 | I would begin Spanish now just to reassure myself that I expected a future in which I could pick up past threads . |
| 8 | I expected a slap but Mrs Bullivant just stepped over us saying she 'd be back later , after she 'd attended Mrs Groves who was having her first . |
| 9 | I expected a reply somewhat like that . |
| 10 | Because of this background , I expected a book called Feminism for Beginners to explain why all this happened when it did . |
| 11 | I knelt at once to pray and prayed most dutifully till morning when I expected a letter telling me Oreste had been taken . |
| 12 | On his return he puzzled me by behaving exactly as I expected an S.S.O. to behave . |
| 13 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 14 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 15 | And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter . |
| 16 | With 33% of Britons likely to get cancer and with cancer being the fear it is , I expected the queue to stretch to Weston-super-Mare and beyond . |
| 17 | I expected the Polynesians there to be just as subject to the ailments of the flesh as anywhere else in the world — especially polio — otherwise what would they need a doctor for ? |
| 18 | NOBODY EXPECTED The Farm to make anything other than a bad album . |
| 19 | Nobody expected the pupils to be paragons of perfection The standards the principal expected of herself were a different matter entirely . |
| 20 | I do n't think she expected a present |
| 21 | This Christmas she expected a baby . |
| 22 | She expected no favours from Ace , and he would be the last to give her any as far as her job was concerned . |
| 23 | As is common practice , Landlords kept the tenant 's deposit of £650 and told Debbie they would take their entire fee of £881 up front , so she expected no rent for the first month . |
| 24 | ‘ Where does your kindness come from ? ’ she asked , and said it almost as if she expected no answer . |
| 25 | At every moment she expected the girl behind the desk to call her back : ‘ Hey , you ! ’ and question her right to be here . |
| 26 | After her electrifying performance as an obsessive fan who helps Robert De Niro kidnap a talk show host in Martin Scorsese 's 1982 King Of Comedy , she has admitted she expected the phone to ring . |
| 27 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |
| 28 | She expected the receiver to be replaced . |
| 29 | Her prophetic framework was based largely on the writings of Thomas Brightman [ q.v. ] and John Archer ; she expected the conversion and restoration of the Jews in 1656 , and the full establishment of Christ 's kingdom by 1701 . |
| 30 | She was a nice girl and she expected the ring . |