Example sentences of "expected [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group expected economic recovery in 1993 . |
| 2 | They all expected each member of the staff to express — discreetly — particular and intense interest in their child . |
| 3 | If Krupp commanded his armies of workers , Richard Wagner expected total subservience from his audience . |
| 4 | In seemed that the Minister expected little opposition in Parliament , where all MPs were members of TANU . |
| 5 | BCCI expected further losses for 1990 of around $450 million , and was reportedly planning a radical rationalization when its assets were seized . |
| 6 | What with John 's new fitness programme , and the salutary Atlantic air and everything , I myself expected some kind of halfhearted renewal . |
| 7 | Anyway , at Stevenage Town Hall we told Ralph that we expected some money for these . |
| 8 | Perhaps he expected some protest from Constanza , a declaration , perhaps he hoped for it . |
| 9 | He obviously expected some sort of reaction . |
| 10 | He smiled and lifted his champagne glass to his lips and Ruth expected some sort of challenge thrown out but none came and a strange feeling percolated inside her , almost disappointment , but she shooed away the notion . |
| 11 | ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name . |
| 12 | As a former member of his Household explained : ‘ He never expected this kind of reaction . |
| 13 | I expected this place to be in chaos — instead , it 's an oasis of calm . |
| 14 | erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem . |
| 15 | It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated . |
| 16 | Dr Neil was not in any way surprised at McAllister 's reaction to his lovemaking ; he expected such modesty from a well brought up young girl , and her arms around his neck , her timid responses , fluttering though they were , told him that she felt for him what he felt for her , and further inflamed his own passion , while warning him to go gently . |
| 17 | By 1875 politics in the Czech countryside was conducted in more sophisticated terms , and those who expected national salvation from supposed kinsmen of ‘ people 's emperors ’ , ancient or modern , would probably feel a little embarrassed to admit it . |
| 18 | During what I call the period of uneasy peace , 1983–84 , Mr Heinz expected all options to be examined and costed in detail . |
| 19 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |
| 20 | Almond and Verba , for example , found that an overwhelming majority of Britons expected equal treatment from politicians and from bureaucrats . |
| 21 | He expected limitless serenity of a man half Indian , and indeed Thomas had sustained the expectation for twenty years or more . |
| 22 | At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet . |
| 23 | In early October , as Mrs Thatcher — flanked by her Cabinet — received a nine-minute standing ovation at the close of a successful party conference , few expected any challenge to her in the leadership election which had to be held within 28 days of the start of the new parliamentary session , due to open on 7 November . |
| 24 | Observers said they expected pro-reform supporters of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to win 70 per cent of the 270 seats . |
| 25 | Because the emphasis was on family placements , residential workers and families expected other plans to be made . |
| 26 | Reviewers would put ‘ When I first heard the name I expected four guys in Factory haircuts ’ . |
| 27 | The price of this pragmatism has been to disappoint those who expected radical changes after Independence . |
| 28 | And last night top U.S. military commander General Colin Powell said he expected Western jets to be enforcing the zone within two weeks . |
| 29 | Many commentators expected significant defections from the LDP to the PPP following Aquino 's endorsement of Ramos . |