Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] expect [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second half I was expecting to see a lot more action from Leeds at the Leeds fans end part of the ground . |
| 2 | played rather a dirty trick on me because he did n't tell me that I was expected to make a speech . |
| 3 | If you were expecting to find a neck something akin to a telegraph pole with one side levelled off , you 'd be pleasantly surprised — this is an extremely comfortable and well-shaped laminate of mainly flamed maple . |
| 4 | ‘ You see , Roger , ’ he commented , ‘ you were expected to take the road to Dover whilst I was bound for Scotland . |
| 5 | Every week she was expected to clean the house right through and make the dinners , while the grandmother had her outing to Edinburgh : ‘ she had jist t'come in and sit doon like a lady . ’ |
| 6 | The white woman knew she was expected to offer a solution , some medical advance that would undo the damage to her friend 's body , to her life . |
| 7 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 8 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 9 | Today they were expected to visit the Play Resource Warehouse and Pilot 's Row Centre , before departing for Belfast . |
| 10 | Some engineers and managers , especially those coming from municipal employment , found the new salaries they were offered higher than their pre-vesting salaries , but others found that they were expected to take a cut . |
| 11 | That system was both perceived and expected to perform three related functions : through election to the House of Commons it was expected to produce a government ; through a purportedly democratic franchise and mode of election , it was expected to confer legitimacy upon the government to govern , subject to the approval of Parliament ; and , through facilitating a choice between parties propounding specific programs , it was expected to influence public policy , the party in government carrying through the promises embodies in its election manifesto . |
| 12 | In addition it was expected to increase the supply of emergency food aid passing across the Ethiopian border into Sudan , to regions facing a severe threat of mass starvation , and to refugees camps around the Sudanese capital , Khartoum , where refugee numbers were swollen by the influx from drought-ridden and war-torn rural areas . |
| 13 | It was expected to reduce the state 's total emissions of air pollutants by about 5 per cent , or 1,435 tonnes per day . |
| 14 | It was expected to co-ordinate a process of consensus-building by holding meetings throughout the country involving maximum public participation . |
| 15 | He was expecting to lodge an appeal with the Barcelona authorities . |
| 16 | He was expecting to become a country parson on his return to Britain , and was only assigned to the Beagle expedition through the recommendations of professor Henslow , his mentor . |
| 17 | He was expected to set an example in knightly exercises , and to show a personal example of prowess in war , although he and his enemies were sufficiently prudent to value him more highly alive than dead , so that a crowned king was rarely killed in battle . |
| 18 | He was expected to own a lighter , but he even had no matches . |
| 19 | It always made him sick when he was expected to watch the turkey-killings . |
| 20 | The king of England was indeed emperor in his own kingdom , but he was expected to swear an oath of homage and fealty to another sovereign or princeps et dominus superior . |
| 21 | He was expected to name a coalition government with congressional support . |
| 22 | Now it surprised him that he was expected to declare the pattern and intention behind it all in order that others could understand . |
| 23 | He was expected to get the crosses in from the left and get back to cover the left of defence . |
| 24 | At one stage he was expected to make the breakthrough to mainstream popularity . |