Example sentences of "expected [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expected my times at Marseille to be measured in years and months , not weeks and days . |
| 2 | She expected my clothes to be bloodstained ! ’ |
| 3 | I have been a machine knitter for about 20 years and I still remember those early garments which I expected my family to wear . |
| 4 | To give some small examples within my own experience , ICI , in the past , expected its managers to be prepared to move , and work , anywhere . |
| 5 | This reversal of earlier antislavery history in which London-based committees had sought to mobilise the provinces from their self-anointed positions of leadership was a sign that an aroused antislavery public expected its demands to override tendencies to parliamentary compromise and to render manoeuvre within virtually irrelevant . |
| 6 | In answer to a parliamentary question on Aug. 5 the government said that it expected its NATO allies to withdraw around 133,000 troops over the next few years , of which 75,000 would be from the USA and 25,000 from the UK . |
| 7 | The noise of the van receded and Forester expected its place to be taken by the measured squeak and clank of the old machine , a sound that he 'd so far heard only through still air at a distance . |
| 8 | Many parents still expected their sons to have a ‘ sound ’ mathematics education and I 'm sure the idea of playing with bits of coloured paper and Sellotape instead of doing ‘ proper ’ maths like they had to , would have horrified some of our parents . |
| 9 | The monks of the Middle Ages used to practise ‘ divine reading ’ , which meant that they expected their lives to be transformed as a result of what they read . |
| 10 | In choosing the best moment to collect the berries it is worth remembering that in the past growers expected their fruit to fulfil more than one function . |
| 11 | Almost half of the respondents expected their farms to go to a member of the next generation . |
| 12 | Experimenters who expected their subjects to be brighter behaved differently towards the rats and thus affected the rats ' learning abilities . |
| 13 | Half expected their profits to rise while only 14 per cent predicted they would fall . |
| 14 | In an early 1950s mining community , husbands kept their wives ' allowances low so that they could skip a shift if they wished , but few wives expected their husbands ‘ to work for nothing ’ and it is not difficult to find examples of wives exercising considerable control over all but the husband 's pocket money . |
| 15 | The characteristic Christian theme was most at variance with pagan assumptions in that bishops asked husbands to be as faithful to their wives as they expected their wives to be to them . |
| 16 | Everyone expected her relationship with Gerald Grosvenor , the Duke of Westminster and Britain 's wealthiest aristocrat , to end in marriage . |
| 17 | ‘ You expected her death , did n't you ? ’ |
| 18 | If Constance expected her role as Lydia back , she did not get it . |
| 19 | ‘ We expected you days ago . |
| 20 | He expected his quarry to turn left at any moment for Heiligenstadt and the north , but instead it pressed on into a part of the city unfamiliar to him , in or near the Jewish quarter . |
| 21 | In an incredibly education conscious Japan , his father , an academic , expected his sons to become academics ; and they all did . |
| 22 | He now had the neatly trimmed beard which his father expected his sons to adopt as they grew to manhood . |
| 23 | Hulme scored twice in a handsome win and confidently expected his leave to be granted . |
| 24 | Although the farmer expected his wife to cope , in many cases she had little preparation for the job . |
| 25 | He regularly came home drunk and expected his wife to do everything he told her . |
| 26 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
| 27 | He expected his successor to call elections in the autumn . |
| 28 | They say he expected his tour manager to catch it . |
| 29 | The master expected his servant to increase his own personal wealth , a situation that is exactly analogous with the generally accepted microeconomic concept that management should seek to maximize the wealth of their ordinary ( equity ) shareholders . |
| 30 | He threw with such power that Mungo half expected his darts to go through the board and stick in the wall . |