Example sentences of "[indef pn] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then , in 1964 he won the Masters again and everyone expected him at St Andrews for the Open Championship . |
| 4 | When the settlers got to Virginia , everyone expected the gentlemen of the party to run things , just as in England . |
| 5 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 6 | Everyone expected her relationship with Gerald Grosvenor , the Duke of Westminster and Britain 's wealthiest aristocrat , to end in marriage . |
| 7 | In the end everyone expected a return on love , demanded a rebate of gratitude or respect . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | President Truman did so in a campaign which no-one expected him to win , and he won . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What did everyone expect , for goodness ' sake ? |
| 17 | Nobody expected it to be competitive but it had been thought that any team serious enough to build and enter a grand prix car should be competent enough to make it last more than five consecutive laps . |
| 18 | At the annual meeting in March Mr Saatchi warned that profits would fall this year ( although nobody expected they would fall nearly as much as they have done ) and there would be disposals . |
| 19 | John Hinde , boss of the Manchester store , said : ‘ Nobody expected him to be the real thing . ’ |
| 20 | NOBODY EXPECTED The Farm to make anything other than a bad album . |
| 21 | In the fifth and final match , nobody expected Nestor to pull off more of his Friday night magic . |
| 22 | Nobody expected Liz to uproot herself , like a woman , like a wife , and follow her husband to America : she was expected to stay where she was , pursuing her own career and pursuing her own inner life , whatever that might be . |
| 23 | Nobody expected this : we can all remember the period of China-mania in the United States in the 1970s , and the anticipation of a ‘ tripolar world ’ . |
| 24 | Nobody expected the pupils to be paragons of perfection The standards the principal expected of herself were a different matter entirely . |
| 25 | Nobody expected anyone to get their leg broken but one would have thought that the top two teams in the country could have contributed more in terms of effort , flair and excitement . |
| 26 | It was in 1985 that he won this championship at Dornoch when nobody expected him to , but this time he could start favourite over what he calls ‘ my own private Shangri La ’ . |
| 27 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 28 | Nobody expects Brigadoon with tartan-skirted villagers singing softly as they fill your arms with sweet heather and invite you in to their fireside . |
| 29 | Nobody expects a paragon of virtue but the nurse is meant to be realistic , is meant to have self-knowledge because the ‘ self ’ must be used in the relationship . |
| 30 | Secondly , although the integral values of the Hall resistivity at the plateaux can be explained by a simple theory that glosses over many of the complications of real inversion layers , nobody expects such outstandingly good agreement , better than 1 part per million , with a theory so coarse . |