Example sentences of "[pers pn] expected [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Marrie said she expected Stephanie to make the under-21 team in the near future and possibly even the full team . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She expected Lucy to head for their office : no one else was ever in before noon on the top floor . |
| 8 | She paused as though she expected Marion to say something . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That evening she expected Edward to join them for dinner at the house . |
| 11 | You expected Tarzan to come swinging through the bushes after Jane . |
| 12 | ‘ We expected Uri to bend a few spoons but we did n't expect the viewers to bend the truth , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Besides , it could be very profitable : PR firms set an inflated value on their own services , and they expected others to do the same . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 17 | They expected diamonds to have a single atomic structure . |
| 18 | They all wanted flattery and nonsense and if they did anything that was n't right they expected people to cover up for them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Novell has said it expected Univel to do over $5m worth of business during the quarter just closed . |
| 21 | 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 ] . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Prof McVie said that he expected drugs to counter rogue genes could be available within seven years . |
| 24 | He expected Willie to ask if there had been any post but there was no response . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Transport minister Roger Freeman said yesterday he expected legislation to begin in the new year and be complete by October . |
| 27 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 28 | He looked as if he expected Wexford to hinder him , but Wexford said nothing . |
| 29 | He expected Maud to come into his bed . |
| 30 | He expected Charity to scoff at such weakness , but surprisingly , she seemed only to be concerned with how that could be arranged . |