Example sentences of "expect the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I never expected the reaction it got coming from me . |
| 2 | However , in the two mazurkas , Fokine expected the dancers slightly to accent the second beat of each bar as in any traditional mazurka or polonaise . |
| 3 | Brent Walker said it expected the buyout negotiations ‘ would be successfully completed shortly ’ . |
| 4 | He expected the full year contribution to be unchanged from £143m . |
| 5 | Until recently most pundits expected the market to improve in the spring of 1991 after stagnating next year . |
| 6 | The bishops expected the hallowed Authorized Version to maintain its mastery because it was sanctified in everyone 's affections and moral sentiments . |
| 7 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 8 | Yet they never expected the Duke of Edinburgh to accompany the Queen everywhere , or Mark Phillips to be seen with Princess Anne . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However , a Midland Bank spokesman said the group expected the dividend flow from the investments acquired to be preferable to the dividend flow from its Argentinian loan portfolio . |
| 11 | His emphasis on a one-party state surprised many Zimbabwean political analysts , who expected the issue to be quietly forgotten . |
| 12 | Party officials half expected the trade talks to break down eventually , at which point Mr Abe would make his entrance . |
| 13 | At every moment she expected the girl behind the desk to call her back : ‘ Hey , you ! ’ and question her right to be here . |
| 14 | ( Ferdinando said he expected the profit on Mr Landor 's rooms was so enormous it covered the cost of the rest more than double . ) |
| 15 | In 1978 they already expected the measures , not announced until 1981 , to restrict quantities of money held by individuals . |
| 16 | When he removed the thumb from his lips , Jackie half expected the puffiness to subside with a gush of escaping air . |
| 17 | But there are still many people shocked by the events of the past few days , who never expected the Army to be prepared to launch rocket and artillery attacks on civilian targets . |
| 18 | Richardson admitted he expected the booing . |
| 19 | But their offers were around £400m to £450m , while Littlewoods clearly expected the price of more than £500m . |
| 20 | John Kendall , economist at Baring Brothers , said he expected the market to continue to be firm next week . |
| 21 | None of the 70,000 English , Scots , Irish , and Anzac troops expected the reception that awaited them , and the rain of death that would greet them from the machine-guns of the Turkish 9th Division , hidden in the hills above . |
| 22 | Several of the teachers shuddered at the mention of this and Endill expected the worst as Mould was led away talking gibberish . |
| 23 | Trent expected the hurricane to last between eight and ten hours . |
| 24 | Whether anyone in Berlin seriously expected the French government to believe this is certainly open to question in view of the preceding events . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Speculation about the leadership had persisted in the run up to the elections — in which most commentators expected the Conservatives to perform disastrously . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I was so much convinced that I should get Roux 's result in all its features , that even in spite of the whole blastula , I now expected the next morning would reveal to me the half-organization of my subject once more ; the gut , I supposed , might come out quite on one side of it , as a half-tube , and the ring of cells might be a half one also . |
| 29 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 30 | With 33% of Britons likely to get cancer and with cancer being the fear it is , I expected the queue to stretch to Weston-super-Mare and beyond . |