Example sentences of "[pers pn] expected [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I have been a machine knitter for about 20 years and I still remember those early garments which I expected my family to wear . |
2 | She expected his suspicion and passed across her wallet of blue plastic . |
3 | ‘ You expected her death , did n't you ? ’ |
4 | The barons were politically partisan — mostly Conservative — and you expected your paper to play a vigorous part for or against Mr Churchill in the 1945 general election campaign . |
5 | He expected his successor to call elections in the autumn . |
6 | They say he expected his tour manager to catch it . |
7 | He expected his quarry to turn left at any moment for Heiligenstadt and the north , but instead it pressed on into a part of the city unfamiliar to him , in or near the Jewish quarter . |
8 | He expected his father to rise and say something about that being no way to speak to one 's wife or not in front of the child , he was capable of that . |
9 | But who Actually he was n't given what he wanted , which I believe was an armed conflict between law enforcement and his group in which he expected to die , in which he expected his membership to die . |
10 | ‘ Well , sir ? ’ he asked Sharpe , but in a nervous voice which suggested that he expected his temerity in asking to be met with a savage reproof . |
11 | How he expected his career to develop when he contracted this marriage is unclear , but he can hardly have supposed that he would be summoned home by the King when Archbishop Warham died , in order to succeed him as Archbishop of Canterbury . |