Example sentences of "[pron] expected [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet . |
| 2 | The price of this pragmatism has been to disappoint those who expected radical changes after Independence . |
| 3 | By 1875 politics in the Czech countryside was conducted in more sophisticated terms , and those who expected national salvation from supposed kinsmen of ‘ people 's emperors ’ , ancient or modern , would probably feel a little embarrassed to admit it . |
| 4 | Observers said they expected pro-reform supporters of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to win 70 per cent of the 270 seats . |
| 5 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |
| 6 | It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated . |
| 7 | And last night top U.S. military commander General Colin Powell said he expected Western jets to be enforcing the zone within two weeks . |
| 8 | He expected limitless serenity of a man half Indian , and indeed Thomas had sustained the expectation for twenty years or more . |