Example sentences of "[pron] expected [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expected no better , ’ said Herluin bitterly , and took the broken box in his hands to stare at the damage . |
| 2 | I expected no different when his Lordship sent me out on the morning of the 19th . |
| 3 | ‘ I expected a wee charge from Middlesbrough early on . |
| 4 | I expected a high-powered event , with dozens , if not hundreds of people present . |
| 5 | I 'd therefore grown used to getting a certain amount of respect from other drivers , so when I found one of the clapped-out Toyotas favoured by Asian families in my path one morning I expected a free passage . |
| 6 | For a moment I expected a knuckle-rapping response , but after a brief hesitation , he said , ‘ My verse was obscure because I was obscure to myself . |
| 7 | She expected a loud shout of . |
| 8 | She expected the thin , whippy shaft to cut viciously into her flesh , but instead only the soft leather flap landed on her hand . |
| 9 | She expected an angry response , and it rather unnerved her when it did n't come . |
| 10 | Those who expected a predictable finale to this unpredictable match got far more than they anticipated . |
| 11 | Even rewards such as these were a shade oblique for those who expected a direct return upon money invested . |
| 12 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 13 | No doubt the clients he entertained here were people who expected the best . |
| 14 | ‘ And you expected no such visitors to the priory ? ’ |
| 15 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 16 | ‘ We expected a physical game and we certainly got one . |
| 17 | No one expected the pastoral Masai to go out to work en masse as agricultural labourers for the Europeans , and so their officers were spared the necessity of acting as labour recruiters — in itself enough to lighten the heart of any administrative officer in Kenya . |
| 18 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 19 | Last night the grieving couple were still baffled by the tragedy that struck down six-year-old Elizabeth a week after doctors said they expected a full recovery from a brain tumour . |
| 20 | The reaction of local farmers to this disruption of their normal farming activity was to wait the situation out , as they expected a high price for their lands . |
| 21 | They expected a few dozen requests , but boxes were eventually sited at 100 farms and two years on experts are thrilled with the results . |
| 22 | And what is true for you would be true for every other supplier : they too will supply more than the natural level if the price on their island is above what they expected the average price to be , and less if it is below . |
| 23 | Delegates indicated that the next full CODESA meeting would be held in April ( rather than in March as originally intended ) , when they expected the working groups to have made substantive progress . |
| 24 | Already in October 1953 the British defence chiefs had warned that in a world war they expected the main and first Soviet nuclear assault to be directed against the British Isles . |
| 25 | Cynical almost to a man , they expected the worst , and had come to write their stories of poor abused children , evil parents , and the things that ‘ incomers ’ get up to in remote islands . |
| 26 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 27 | Forecasting nil growth in the market this year , the company said it expected a slight upturn in the final quarter of 1993 but its total truck sales would not exceed last year 's 32,000 . |
| 28 | In January 1989 the government said it expected a further 361,000 sales over the next three years . |
| 29 | It expected the initial ratio would be 1:1 during development , building to five clients to every server during deployment later on . |
| 30 | He expected no less for the children in the classroom . |