Example sentences of "and [pron] expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , in 1964 he won the Masters again and everyone expected him at St Andrews for the Open Championship . |
| 2 | They had been defiled , and I expected punishment . |
| 3 | Against : almost nothing I can put my finger on , except that it 's a darned expensive guitar and I expected it to justify its price by being inspiring — which , for all of us who tried it , it somehow failed to be . |
| 4 | I started siding stuff then , an' sweeping an' doing ; and I expected he 'd begin a calling me for my idle ways . |
| 5 | Whenever we went there , Salvo and I expected Hasan 's ghost to leap out of the darkness and slit our throats with his dagger . |
| 6 | So she knew where we lived , and I expected her to turn up and claim you . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 8 | The barons were politically partisan — mostly Conservative — and you expected your paper to play a vigorous part for or against Mr Churchill in the 1945 general election campaign . |
| 9 | ‘ And you expected no such visitors to the priory ? ’ |
| 10 | Anyway it was the type of house you looked into it and you expected to see cobwebs you know , sort of fustiness sor |
| 11 | Cecil Rhodes , whom no one thought of as retiring and who expected to be remembered for a thousand years , chose , it will be remembered , as his instrument to achieve the infinite expansion of the British empire a secret society . |
| 12 | Somewhat surprised approval from Mona , and she expected an explanation . |
| 13 | She was a nice girl and she expected the ring . |
| 14 | JUST before Budget Day we told the story of the Brentford Football Club fan who occupies a senior post at the Treasury and we expected a giveaway Budget if Brentford were leading the Third Division table at the time . |
| 15 | The long wait was almost over and they expected to be greeting the passengers in a few minutes . |
| 16 | They did all that so that we would have better opportunities , and they expected us to grab them when they came along . |
| 17 | They were friends and they expected never to see each other again . |
| 18 | Besides , it could be very profitable : PR firms set an inflated value on their own services , and they expected others to do the same . |
| 19 | They had surrounded him with horror and stupidity , with all the paraphernalia of this so-called human excess , and they expected it to bring him down , to reduce him still further from the once proud state he had fallen from , but they would not succeed . |
| 20 | And they expected a lot of but they did n't expect that many . |
| 21 | Jimmy Davidson , coach to the highly successful Ulster side , was given the job and everybody expected serious improvement . |
| 22 | Complaints had been received from local residents that their wash-houses were being abused , and he expected that by the end of his beat at 6 a.m. he would be busy enough . |
| 23 | Out of their invalidity benefits , which came to £60 , rent took £5.10 , and he expected to spend £5 daily on drink and cigarettes — at least . |
| 24 | The sergeant thought Blanche would be tired after the tension of the previous hour or two , and he expected Blanche to sit at her desk quietly for a few minutes . |
| 25 | Greenspan stated that the probability of recession had slipped below 50 per cent and he expected growth in the first quarter of 1990 to be " slow but positive " . |
| 26 | Hundreds of the hostel residents had been questioned , the Commissioner said ; six had been arrested , and he expected further arrests following the result of forensic tests of bloodstained weapons found at the hostel . |
| 27 | It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed . |