Example sentences of "[pers pn] expected [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Reviewers would put ‘ When I first heard the name I expected four guys in Factory haircuts ’ .
2 ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name .
3 erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem .
4 Observers said they expected pro-reform supporters of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to win 70 per cent of the 270 seats .
5 It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated .
6 Perhaps he expected some protest from Constanza , a declaration , perhaps he hoped for it .
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