Example sentences of "[pron] expect [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | Neither of them expected it , especially with everyone listening in . |
| 3 | When everyone expected him to break into a nimble tune , he played a slow air that sounded Irish in the long luxuriant unfolding of each phrase . |
| 4 | Then , in 1964 he won the Masters again and everyone expected him at St Andrews for the Open Championship . |
| 5 | Everyone expected her relationship with Gerald Grosvenor , the Duke of Westminster and Britain 's wealthiest aristocrat , to end in marriage . |
| 6 | Dorothea shook her head , angry with herself , for everyone expected her , rushed to help her , everyone , truly , was so kind and the Rector relied upon her industry . |
| 7 | The US Seniors ' Tour may outstrip the USPGA Tour in terms of waistlines and average age , but no-one expected its leading money winner to also claim higher earnings . |
| 8 | President Truman did so in a campaign which no-one expected him to win , and he won . |
| 9 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 10 | ‘ When I 'd finished writing the book I had lunch with a publisher ; she walked in with this crestfallen expression on her face , saying , ‘ I expected somebody taller , blonder , and just more … |
| 11 | Torquay was the last place I expected something like this to happen . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I expected something to be said to me by the directors after recent results . |
| 13 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 14 | From an early age I expected them to do things for themselves , and sometimes for me , and when they snivelled about their friends having kind and conscientious mothers who changed their sheets and made fruit pies , I said ‘ Some day , when you 're at Sunderland Polytechnic and living by your wits , you 'll thank me . ’ |
| 15 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 16 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 17 | I expected them to start flexing their muscles in a wrecking , ransacking assault on the ship . |
| 18 | I expected them to learn how to read . |
| 19 | I expected him to rise . |
| 20 | I saw the lie and line , and knowing what he 'd done already , I expected him to chip in . |
| 21 | It is the last thing I expected him to do . |
| 22 | ‘ I expected him over an hour ago . ’ |
| 23 | I suppose I expected him to pounce or something . |
| 24 | I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head . |
| 25 | But although he was terse , he did n't rage at me the way I expected him to . |
| 26 | I expected him to be with me , his stentorian ubiety transmogrifying the spacious library into somewhere shabby and small . |
| 27 | I expected him to continue , but he knelt and pushed the rusty metal through the brightly coloured rope that bound the fortune-teller 's waist . |
| 28 | I 've been lucky : Scathach has returned only four years older than I expected him to be . ’ |
| 29 | the tube station cos I expected him to spring out |
| 30 | I expected her to limp slightly . |