Example sentences of "[was/were] expect [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the new baronet lived in India and no instructions from him were expected for many months . |
| 2 | when I was a boy of fifteen you were expected to half acre of neeps in the day . |
| 3 | It was after five-thirty on a Friday night , and Tom was expected at any minute . |
| 4 | In fact , however , new disappointments followed on Hitler 's confident promises : the bombing , almost unimpeded by German defences , intensified ; the situation on the eastern Front worsened almost by the day ; and in the west an invasion was expected at any time . |
| 5 | Coutts had been informed that a cheque for $6m was expected at any moment from MGM films in America — payment for the distribution rights of Electric Dreams . |
| 6 | In 1976 the figure was set at 20,000 , and it was expected in that year that the figure would not exceed 15,000 in the following and subsequent years . |
| 7 | Does the right hon. Gentleman recall telling the House that a rise in inflation was expected in these months for what he called ’ technical reasons ’ shortly after the Prime Minister told the country that the Government had inflation licked ? |
| 8 | Subservience was expected by all levels of employer , titled or otherwise , and Marie Thwaites was one of a number of young men and women who were packed off to a life which was not only unacceptable by today 's standards , but hardly believable . |
| 9 | Dennis eventually went off with her on his own , leaving Nicholson to return alone to their hotel where he acted out some kind of ritual guarding of their rooms , ready to forewarn of an attack he was expecting at any moment from some non-existent Red Indians . |
| 10 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |