Example sentences of "one expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one expected otherwise than to get second- or third-hand stock on a train running between Weymouth and Bristol , or between Manchester Victoria and Leeds , or from Glasgow to Stranraer . |
| 2 | No one expected him to live . |
| 3 | No one expected to reverse the pull of 14 years of refugee resettlement overnight , and there is little doubt that voluntary repatriation would pick up speed if the Hong Kong authorities used quiet persuasion instead of the big stick . |
| 4 | Not what one expected of the wife of the senior partner , Tim observed , thinking smugly of his own immaculately turned-out Patrice , who would refuse to eat if she put on even an extra pound and who would as soon leave the house naked as without make-up . |
| 5 | ( Surprised , though ; one expected a Swede to be neurotic — but a Scot ! ) |
| 6 | With the Falklands War in 1982 — conventional warfare such as no one expected to see again — there surfaced memories that had never been buried very deep . |
| 7 | No one expected to achieve anything much after lunch , so the mood was languid and light-hearted , as though we were just pretending . |
| 8 | of matches under the sleeve and showed one secured by an elastic band which clearly one expected to be the cause of the rattling noise . |
| 9 | No one expected the pastoral Masai to go out to work en masse as agricultural labourers for the Europeans , and so their officers were spared the necessity of acting as labour recruiters — in itself enough to lighten the heart of any administrative officer in Kenya . |
| 10 | ‘ I maybe asks as should n't , but when is the little one expected ? |
| 11 | No one expected her to win — and is n't that what it 's all about , taking part ? — . |
| 12 | When it hit it was travelling at more than 400 miles an hour : no one expected it , and hundreds of Japanese living along the coasts of Hokkaido and Honshu were drowned . |
| 13 | No one expected an attack from there . |
| 14 | No one expected an attack . |
| 15 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |
| 16 | On her fortieth birthday , in 1943 , she was taken to hospital for a cancer operation and no one expected her to live . |
| 17 | Dr Patrick Brooks , Senior Medical Adviser , Scottish Rome and Health Department The current " family " of design guidance notes for use in planning new hospitals buildings in the Scottish Health Service is at present Hospital Planning Note 1 ( HPN1 ) , and its collection of supplements which , at November 1988 , numbered 11 in all , with one further one expected early in 1989 . |
| 18 | I think no one expected her to be . |
| 19 | And of course no one expected to hear much from him during his sabbatical year , unless , as you say , something was wrong . |
| 20 | Scarcely what one expected from a man who was deeply in love . |
| 21 | It was tense and frustrating , but no one expected anything less . |
| 22 | With debut goalkeeper Tim Flowers in fine form , England came within 13 minutes of a victory that no one expected after World Cup disasters in Poland and Norway . |
| 23 | The River Ure around Langthorpe was badly affected by mid-week floods and no one expected much from a venue still out of sorts for Bradford 's closing fixture . |
| 24 | Abdesselam told the press on July 27 that the elimination of corruption remained a high priority and that " those who paid the price for the measures that have been taken so far are the youth … let no one expect me to make the deprived masses pay any more " . |
| 25 | What else could one expect ? |
| 26 | Only in the case of money , over which men may retain control even when the domestic division of labour is less rigid , might one expect them to be more actively involved in exchanges of support with kin . |
| 27 | But while the French did not feel encouraged to emigrate in large numbers , the 50,000 inhabitants of New France moved inland much more boldly than the Abbé Prevost might have made one expect . |
| 28 | Granted that psychologists have described a whole taxonomy of memory , procedural and declarative , episodic and semantic , working and reference , should one expect similar underlying biochemical and cellular changes to be involved in each , or would every form of memory have its own special biochemistry ? |
| 29 | They would simply raise disdainful eyebrows and say what else could one expect of the lower orders ; the Irish ? |
| 30 | It was this habit of self-mastery which made one expect him always to maintain a standard of behaviour which other people felt themselves excused from emulating . |