Example sentences of "expected a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jewish law expected a boy to get married between the age of thirteen and eighteen to a Jewish girl aged twelve-and-a-half to fifteen ! ! |
| 2 | After a while he returned , came over to me and , though I half expected a smack , said , ‘ Maintenant , il y a un nouvel relation entre nous . |
| 3 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
| 4 | Woking manager Geoff Chapple said the club expected a gate of up to 3,000 for tomorrow 's home fixture with Kingstonian . |
| 5 | In the end everyone expected a return on love , demanded a rebate of gratitude or respect . |
| 6 | I expected a hanging , at least . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't think she expected a present |
| 8 | The biggest error of all was for investment ; the Treasury expected a fall in volume terms of under 1% , but in the event it fell by 12% . |
| 9 | I expected a fanfare to greet me , or at least for Tony to fall to his knees in admiration . |
| 10 | At least he behaved as Khrushchev expected a capitalist to behave , as a ‘ chained cur of imperialism ’ . |
| 11 | The switch has surprised Wembley , who expected a home game against Spain , and has disappointed the Spanish FA , who hoped they were being invited to London for only the second time in 20 years . |
| 12 | We expected a response . |
| 13 | The less expected a choice , the more marked it is and the more meaning it carries ; the more expected , the less marked it is and the less significance it will have . |
| 14 | Many rabbis expected a Messiah after the destruction of the Second Temple , and the greatest of them , Rabbi Akiva , found his Messiah in Bar Kochba under Hadrian , though it is very doubtful whether Bar Kochba himself even claimed Messianic status . |
| 15 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 16 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
| 17 | Presenting the seventh development plan ( 1991-97 ) to the National Assembly on Nov. 19 , Masire said that he expected a slowdown in revenue in the coming period and that the private sector would have to play a greater role in diversifying the economy and reducing the dependence on mineral exports . |
| 18 | He answered that he had gone too far now and that the Country expected a dissolution . |
| 19 | In 1990 the government expected a growth in imports of 25 per cent , so that exports would need to grow by 15 per cent in order to limit the fall in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990 to 2 per cent . |
| 20 | I knelt at once to pray and prayed most dutifully till morning when I expected a letter telling me Oreste had been taken . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Industry observers expected a deal only after the result of the general election was known . |
| 23 | ( Surprised , though ; one expected a Swede to be neurotic — but a Scot ! ) |
| 24 | He glanced sideways at Jehan as if he expected a comment . |
| 25 | ‘ Interesting , ’ she said , when she realised he expected a comment . |
| 26 | In Finland , the Bolsheviks expected a workers ’ revolution but in the short term recognized the independent bourgeois republic . |
| 27 | When he came over to me I fully expected a slap on my kisser , I being the known ring-leader . |
| 28 | I expected a slap but Mrs Bullivant just stepped over us saying she 'd be back later , after she 'd attended Mrs Groves who was having her first . |
| 29 | Best who was at a Lions selection meeting in Edinburgh yesterday morning , reckoned the margin and manner of Scotland 's 20-0 victory would certainly have England worried and that he expected a cracker of a game on Saturday week at Twickenham , where Scotland have won only twice , in 1971 and 1983 , since the Second World War . |
| 30 | The SSD expected a demand for advocates to accompany mothers to child protection conferences . |