Example sentences of "expected [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plans , expected to include cuts in some minister 's budgets , will be revealed in the chancellor 's autumn statement next week . |
| 2 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 3 | This feeling was so strong there that he almost expected to see Linkworth standing there , watching him . |
| 4 | She expected to see signs of fury in his eyes at that stab but she saw nothing to indicate any such irritation . |
| 5 | She half expected to see bloodstains . |
| 6 | Anyway it was the type of house you looked into it and you expected to see cobwebs you know , sort of fustiness sor |
| 7 | I expected to see Dr Mortimer , as I knew nobody else in the village . |
| 8 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 9 | ‘ Madam , I confess myself deeply grieved that you should judge one an enemy who has ever served you and yours faithfully and to the utmost of his ability , ’ he said sorrowfully — and the prince , watching the scene with avid interest , expected to see tears well from his eyes . |
| 10 | ‘ Those were his words , ’ said Nancy , looking round uneasily , as if she still expected to see Sikes . |
| 11 | It was the day before we expected to see Treasure Island . |
| 12 | Looking down she expected to see blood , awfulness , something dead . |
| 13 | Just when we expected to see Cordoba produce an extra gear as Walter Swinburn got to work with the whip , the son of El Gran Senor capitulated and it was Balla Cove who produced extra reserves to hold the late thrust of Rock City . |
| 14 | In illus.1 a sophisticated Paris readership expected to see reality heightened , not burlesqued . |
| 15 | On this particular tour they were based in Chicago for seven weeks and expected to see gangsters shooting on the sidewalks every minute . |
| 16 | Most of the journalists expected to see children near the line . |
| 17 | Julia opened her eyes again and saw Comfort looking around her as though she expected to see men in white coats with a stretcher appearing through the walls . |
| 18 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 19 | He had taken it , now , that she was not going ; she expected to see resentment blossom , but he did not resent it . |
| 20 | The gang expected to net £5,000 as they ambushed a wages clerk on her drive back from the bank . |
| 21 | A £1.5m scheme of cash incentives to encourage business development , expected to attract £165,000 from Europe ; |
| 22 | The Leeds Permanent building society expected to increase rates by at least 1.25 per cent . |
| 23 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 24 | She expected to find Lori 's head swimming into focus , close to her own , like a pale balloon and looked away in order to avoid that confrontation . |
| 25 | So were the robbers — they expected to find £2 million . |
| 26 | I expected to find interdependence , but no uniformity , in the Greek approach to the various nations and in the response of these nations ( when recognizable from our evidence ) to the Greek approach . |
| 27 | ‘ Mrs Wimbush tells me you expected to find Thorn House still a maternity home . |
| 28 | We reached Chelalo on the Arussi mountains in the afternoon of 5 October ; it was here that we expected to find nyala . |
| 29 | Then I commenced a tremulous search through its pages , almost as if I expected to find details of a timeslip between Geneva and where I now was . |
| 30 | She expected to find Kathleen prostrated by the tragedy in her family , but although she spoke sadly of Cormac 's wasted life and her mother 's collapse , Kathleen seemed remarkably untouched by the tragedy . |