Example sentences of "expect [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ None of us expected the single to take off the way it did , ’ adds Dermot . |
| 2 | And having voted for party candidates , the electors expected the members returned to Parliament to support the program offered by their leaders at the election . |
| 3 | ‘ A fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay ’ was their motto and , if they expected the pay to satisfy them , they also confidently expected the work to satisfy everybody , including themselves . |
| 4 | ‘ A fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay ’ was their motto and , if they expected the pay to satisfy them , they also confidently expected the work to satisfy everybody , including themselves . |
| 5 | There was a time when its readers expected the novel to inform or to instruct , to contribute to the definition of a direction for society . |
| 6 | He placed his flabby hand on the hot little forehead , and Edward expected the fever to disappear like magic . |
| 7 | Trent expected the hurricane to last between eight and ten hours . |
| 8 | But fans who expected the maestro to run through all of his favourites were disappointed . |
| 9 | One younger Welsh hill farmer used to go up ‘ to help his father in evenings with the few cattle they had ’ , but afterwards at supper the older man expected the grandchildren to keep silent , and if they spoke ‘ he 'd look at us fiercely . ’ |
| 10 | Those who expected the election to lead to a radical change in domestic policy certainly found the first two years of the Kennedy era disappointing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In this he was only following in Lanfranc 's footsteps , and it is clear that he expected the king to exercise more authority in ecclesiastical affairs than the more ‘ advanced ’ ecclesiastical theorists of his time thought tolerable . |
| 13 | Speculation about the leadership had persisted in the run up to the elections — in which most commentators expected the Conservatives to perform disastrously . |
| 14 | BRITISH officials said yesterday that the German Chancellor , Helmut Kohl , wanted to put pressure on Britain and Denmark to ratify the Maastricht treaty , but added that Britain expected the EC to press ahead with 12 , members not 10 . |
| 15 | However , on their first night she felt like a patient strapped to an operating table without the benefit of an anaesthetic ; and the surgeon was not only blind but expected the patient to give him directions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The chief inspector of nuclear installations , Ron Anthony , now admits that he expected the inquiry to open later in the licensing procedure — which is independent of the inquiry 's deliberations . |
| 18 | But Bosnia 's Muslim president , Alija Izetbegovic , said yesterday on a visit to Turkey that he expected the Geneva talks to resume in two weeks . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | He expected the Archon to make a rousing speech , denouncing the forces of ill-reason and pleading for a suspension of the conflict , pending negotiations . |
| 21 | As she expected the children had vanished perhaps into the trees . |
| 22 | Analysts said they expected the group to have no big problems persuading shareholders to approve the restructuring plans at an extraordinary general meeting on December 21 . |
| 23 | He gave important , but merely verbal assurances that the proceeds from it for the arts , heritage , sport and charities would not substitute other government funds for these areas and that he expected the cash to begin flowing at the end of 1994 . |
| 24 | Levi noted that most of the republics had Jewish communities and said that Israel expected the republics to respect the communities ' rights , including the right to free emigration . |
| 25 | Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt said he expected the project to proceed , but did not say whether the government would take the unprecedented step of overriding the commission ; environmentalists have pressed for a tunnel to be built instead . |
| 26 | John Kendall , economist at Baring Brothers , said he expected the market to continue to be firm next week . |
| 27 | Until recently most pundits expected the market to improve in the spring of 1991 after stagnating next year . |
| 28 | She is now in Towers Hospital , Leicester , where a spokesman said they expected the family to break the news to her in the next few days . |
| 29 | The iron-studded door in the central archway looked impervious to battering-rams , but above it , behind a line of similar arches , was the big open terrace on which S. Kettering expected the family to dine — an instruction , Molly thought , which it would be no particular hardship to follow . |
| 30 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |