Example sentences of "expected [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected William Temple to back Henson and was grieved to find that his hero was weak because he refused to stand up and fight . |
| 2 | She had hoped her life might be completely happy and perfect , and expected Vronsky to sacrifice his whole life to love her entirely . |
| 3 | The Franks were also worried about how ‘ tough ’ Carter appeared — before they toured with the duo they expected Jim Bob and Fruitbat to beat them up . |
| 4 | Frankly , I expected Philippa Lowthorpe 's film about love among the over-65s to come out like a cross between Esther Rantzen at her drippiest and Coronation Street at its dopiest . |
| 5 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 6 | Announcing the scheme Education Minister Michael Ancram said he expected savings up to £100 , a year as a result of the improvements . |
| 7 | She expected Lucy to head for their office : no one else was ever in before noon on the top floor . |
| 8 | Devoy hinted that she expected Jackman to be her successor , by adding : ‘ She can have it [ the title ] after me . ’ |
| 9 | That evening she expected Edward to join them for dinner at the house . |
| 10 | Each evening when we tidied away our papers I expected Edward to invite me over to the Lodge for a drink or a meal , and the invitation was not extended . |
| 11 | Still , we were hopeful of the future of the still young department , when the decision was made to seek CNAA validation for the courses offered by the College , and we prepared to rewrite ours to take account of our experience , and to justify our intentions more fully than we had had to do before to critics from whom we expected scepticism rather than sympathy . |
| 12 | These companies expected Speywood to spend their £4 million investment on perfecting and marketing blood proteins from conventional technology — not funding new biotechnology projects . |
| 13 | Friends such as Edward Clodd , who expected Hardy to be relieved by her death in 1912 , found instead that he was overcome with remorse for neglecting one whom he had once loved so well . |
| 14 | Fact Two : Colonel Smith expected gun-runners . |
| 15 | ‘ We expected Uri to bend a few spoons but we did n't expect the viewers to bend the truth , ’ he said . |
| 16 | No doubt both men , as supporters of the Gothic Revival , expected Scott to adhere to his stated principles . |
| 17 | The article says : ’ Mr. Major disagreed with the delegation 's gloomy forecast of when the recovery in construction would begin , saying he expected industry to emerge from recession in the middle of next year . ’ |
| 18 | He also told reporters he expected Syria , Jordan and Lebanon — the Arab countries talking peace with Israel in Washington — to sign other agreements with the Jewish state simultaneously within days . |
| 19 | The war now being effectively over , they expected Richard Baxter to return to them . |
| 20 | Stage : Pre Draft Deposit consultation expected June/July 1992 . |
| 21 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 22 | Marshall expected Wickham to draw back , let Pascoe 's temper subside and then wheedle the truth . |
| 23 | In the fifth and final match , nobody expected Nestor to pull off more of his Friday night magic . |
| 24 | ‘ When I told Chris I was pregnant , I expected panic certainly , but not the hatred that came pouring from him . |
| 25 | ‘ They expected telecommunications and roads to be modernized within two or three years , but it will take many , many , years . ’ |
| 26 | In particular , she expected perils out of the flatties — murderous hoodlums , crooked cops , knife-wielding janitors-but she knew that if he stretched his mind a touch , Daine could make anything or anyone in the City into a weapon . |
| 27 | He expected Maud to come into his bed . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , he expected assistance from him . |
| 29 | In a statement issued on March 28 the Mongolian Foreign Ministry announced that it expected Russia to abide by a March 1990 Soviet-Mongolian agreement which stipulated that all Soviet troops would withdraw from Mongolia by Aug. 30 , 1992 [ see p. 37318 ] . |
| 30 | It added that it expected Denmark 's gross domestic product to grow by 2.25 per cent in 1992 , up from 2 per cent in 1991 . |