Example sentences of "expected [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had hoped her life might be completely happy and perfect , and expected Vronsky to sacrifice his whole life to love her entirely . |
| 2 | She expected Lucy to head for their office : no one else was ever in before noon on the top floor . |
| 3 | That evening she expected Edward to join them for dinner at the house . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These companies expected Speywood to spend their £4 million investment on perfecting and marketing blood proteins from conventional technology — not funding new biotechnology projects . |
| 6 | ‘ We expected Uri to bend a few spoons but we did n't expect the viewers to bend the truth , ’ he said . |
| 7 | No doubt both men , as supporters of the Gothic Revival , expected Scott to adhere to his stated principles . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Marshall expected Wickham to draw back , let Pascoe 's temper subside and then wheedle the truth . |
| 11 | In the fifth and final match , nobody expected Nestor to pull off more of his Friday night magic . |
| 12 | He expected Maud to come into his bed . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | Ruby had said she would be at the office again next morning by which time she expected Rain to have found something more profitable for her than keys . |
| 15 | Airships are not all that easily shot down , a disconcerting fact to pilots in the First World War who expected tracer to ignite hydrogen gas at once . |
| 16 | Advanced Micro will have a fifth generation microprocessor on the market in 1995 , and other areas were also performing well , with strong sales in non-volatile Flash memory products , where he expected revenues to jump to $200m in 1993 from $45m in 1992 . |
| 17 | ‘ I never expected Maurice to die in such a way . |
| 18 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 19 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |
| 20 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 21 | He expected Willie to ask if there had been any post but there was no response . |
| 22 | That was sufficient because the early Christians expected Jesus to return immediately and set up the reign of God on earth . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I expected Father to chase me , but when I reached the corner and looked back he was just standing there talking to the thin man . |
| 25 | They all wanted flattery and nonsense and if they did anything that was n't right they expected people to cover up for them . |
| 26 | Nobody expected Liz to uproot herself , like a woman , like a wife , and follow her husband to America : she was expected to stay where she was , pursuing her own career and pursuing her own inner life , whatever that might be . |
| 27 | As we have seen , Ezekiel and Jeremiah expected God to change men in the days of the New Covenant by putting his Spirit within them , so that they should walk in his ways and keep his commandments : after Pentecost the Holy Spirit begins to produce holiness in God 's people . |
| 28 | When the campaign in North Africa ended in success for the Allies in May everyone expected Joe to come home , but his company went straight to Italy . |
| 29 | She paused as though she expected Marion to say something . |
| 30 | The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life . |