Example sentences of "[pron] expected [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing that pickups are one of the first corners to be cut in budget guitars , I expected tameness if not lameness from the EX . |
| 2 | ‘ When I told Chris I was pregnant , I expected panic certainly , but not the hatred that came pouring from him . |
| 3 | I expected Father to chase me , but when I reached the corner and looked back he was just standing there talking to the thin man . |
| 4 | They had been defiled , and I expected punishment . |
| 5 | When she told Robert that she was going to confess her dark secret , his reaction was to ask if she expected criticism . |
| 6 | She expected courtesy from men and often received it . |
| 7 | Ruby had said she would be at the office again next morning by which time she expected Rain to have found something more profitable for her than keys . |
| 8 | Airships are not all that easily shot down , a disconcerting fact to pilots in the First World War who expected tracer to ignite hydrogen gas at once . |
| 9 | Rather as you expected East wins the first trick with the ten of diamonds , and at trick two leads the four of spades . |
| 10 | We expected sabotage from the Labour extremists and hired two 100,000 watt generators in case the electrical sub-station was cut off . |
| 11 | Still , we were hopeful of the future of the still young department , when the decision was made to seek CNAA validation for the courses offered by the College , and we prepared to rewrite ours to take account of our experience , and to justify our intentions more fully than we had had to do before to critics from whom we expected scepticism rather than sympathy . |
| 12 | The four main zaibatsu were more than able to supply the financial needs of the two main political parties , but in return they expected state support to continue . |
| 13 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 14 | Now they expected information from him . |
| 15 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , he expected assistance from him . |
| 17 | Transport minister Roger Freeman said yesterday he expected legislation to begin in the new year and be complete by October . |
| 18 | Parry recommended a revision of the practices of the construction industry , and said that he expected insurance costs to rise . |
| 19 | Essentially , he expected art , even that of the Avant-garde , not merely to override the present but to ride it . |
| 20 | Greenspan stated that the probability of recession had slipped below 50 per cent and he expected growth in the first quarter of 1990 to be " slow but positive " . |
| 21 | He expected silence when he spoke , almost required it , and the more worshipful the better . |
| 22 | The article says : ’ Mr. Major disagreed with the delegation 's gloomy forecast of when the recovery in construction would begin , saying he expected industry to emerge from recession in the middle of next year . ’ |
| 23 | He expected Bunny to stay behind , but he was the first out of the door . |
| 24 | In what is a highly fluid situation , a senior opposition source said that he expected Forum ministers to be in office by the weekend . |