Example sentences of "[pron] expected [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | But even if political authorities were clear about what they expected from public enterprises , political control would remain problematic . |
4 | Was that not what he expected from Asian shopkeepers , and did that justify breaking their bones ? |
5 | He expected in normal years a clear trading profit of £400 . |