Example sentences of "[pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | Neither of them expected it , especially with everyone listening in . |
| 3 | When everyone expected him to break into a nimble tune , he played a slow air that sounded Irish in the long luxuriant unfolding of each phrase . |
| 4 | Dorothea shook her head , angry with herself , for everyone expected her , rushed to help her , everyone , truly , was so kind and the Rector relied upon her industry . |
| 5 | Then , in 1964 he won the Masters again and everyone expected him at St Andrews for the Open Championship . |
| 6 | When the settlers got to Virginia , everyone expected the gentlemen of the party to run things , just as in England . |
| 7 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 8 | Everyone expected her relationship with Gerald Grosvenor , the Duke of Westminster and Britain 's wealthiest aristocrat , to end in marriage . |
| 9 | In the end everyone expected a return on love , demanded a rebate of gratitude or respect . |
| 10 | When the campaign in North Africa ended in success for the Allies in May everyone expected Joe to come home , but his company went straight to Italy . |
| 11 | One of the first was the Camattini family , who left La Spezia , the great port and naval base on the Ligurian Sea which everyone expected to be bombarded by the British Fleet . |
| 12 | Of course — as Titmuss pointed out — had the Luftwaffe launched an all-out offensive on 3 September 1939 , as everyone expected , this scenario would have come about . |
| 13 | Contrary to what everyone expected , urban children suddenly subjected to the apparently healthy environment of fresh air and green fields did not show any marked improvement in health . |
| 14 | The Convention not only transferred the Crown to William and Mary , but also laid down certain terms for the new rulers in the document known as the Declaration of Rights , and if the offer of the Crown was not strictly speaking conditional upon William and Mary 's acceptance of these terms , it was clear that everyone expected that they were to abide by them . |
| 15 | President Truman did so in a campaign which no-one expected him to win , and he won . |
| 16 | The US Seniors ' Tour may outstrip the USPGA Tour in terms of waistlines and average age , but no-one expected its leading money winner to also claim higher earnings . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 19 | Well I 'd no room in this shop , there was no erm anywhere to store them expect the man just here see , where the g where they used to keep his car . |
| 20 | As for sociable hours , I would not be in this trade if I expected to work nine to five , Monday to Friday . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Pike , as I expected , confirmed that this was work which was normally done by the statistical clerks . |
| 23 | ‘ I expected it to be hard because , when we tested here last February , I did a full race distance and it was hard work , very painful . ’ |
| 24 | As I made clear to my officers at that briefing , I expected — and received — the very highest standards of policing , sensitivity and courtesy . |
| 25 | I expected better from someone half my age . |
| 26 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 27 | As I expected , the jeeps were now arriving with the Commando dead and wounded from the areas around the village . |
| 28 | I expected him to rise . |
| 29 | I expected it to be light , cos I thought it was morning on account of all the people all hurrying about . |
| 30 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |