Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] expect [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was at home , I was expected to be submissive , obedient and totally dependent on my parents . |
| 2 | But , wherever we went , whatever we did , we were accompanied by the innate , subconscious awareness that we were expected to be grateful . |
| 3 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 4 | They were expected to be decorative and subservient . |
| 5 | In experiments on rats it has been shown that where experimenters expected rats to be maze-bright , the rats fulfilled their expectation and where they were expected to be maze-dull the rats also fulfilled expectations . |
| 6 | And it was expected to be successful . |
| 7 | It was expected to be ready for operations by 1 May with a strength of two troops . |
| 8 | The naked body of Diana Travers , his domestic servant , was found drowned at his wife 's Thames-side birthday party , a party at which he was expected to be present . |
| 9 | Four weeks ago a girl who worked for him , Diana Travers , was found drowned following a party given for his wife on her birthday , a party at which he was expected to be present . |