Example sentences of "[verb] expect [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | It had been a stupid omission , but then she 'd left so unexpectedly and in such a rush ; besides , she 'd expected Suzie to be at the address she 'd been given . |
2 | It took her a moment to realize that she 'd expected Daak to add his comment , and that he had n't done so . |
3 | I 'd expected Famlio to be patrolling in deep space , as usual , giving me room to manoeuvre and avoid them . |
4 | From the title , some might have expected Lilley to give an indication of his hopes for revival in the near future . |
5 | Because , if that had been so , one could have expected Jasper too to have returned home . |
6 | Few contemporaries would have expected Balfour 's retirement to lead to a Unionist recovery . |
7 | It was how he would have expected Frankie to react . |
8 | As the Caribbean Creoles are all fairly similar to each other , we might have expected Trudgill 's processes of " levelling " and " simplification " to have applied to produce a " British Caribbean Creole " sharing features of all the Caribbean Creoles with significant numbers of speakers in Britain . |
9 | And as you say , all we can do is wait , and continue to expect Doctor Morris to turn up in his own good time . |
10 | Dot kept expecting Mrs Hollidaye to ask her to come down and stay . |
11 | It would have been too much of a coincidence to have expected Tony Cable to be the engineering investigator at the top of the go-team list since he had worked in Seattle for the Boeing Company before he joined AIB ( the ‘ Branch ’ , as it is known by its members ) and his personal knowledge of that company 's products is obviously substantial . |
12 | No one , of course , had expected Father Kendrick to stay . |
13 | Many observers had expected Rafeeuddin Ahmed , the UN Under-Secretary-General responsible for Cambodia since 1982 , to take charge of the operation . |
14 | When she threw herself down on the grass , he had expected Underwood to take advantage of the situation , but he sat upright and apart . |
15 | She had n't anticipated spending her first night on board quite alone ; she had expected Fenella , Caro 's stepsister , to be here too . |
16 | I had expected Gillis to be long since dead or at best a doddering ninety-year-old . |
17 | Hari felt a rush of disappointment , she had expected Lewis to jump at the chance of earning some money but it seemed he was reluctant to take her venture seriously . |
18 | She had expected Fernando to turn up at the airport with his arms full of red roses and promises . |
19 | Ianthe was also dismayed , for she had expected Sophia or some other female member of St Basil 's congregation to be on the doorstep . |
20 | It was not a decision he had expected Massingham to welcome , and nor had he . |
21 | And if Emily had expected Craig to ride in on a white charger and save the day , she had been doomed to disappointment . |
22 | The press apparently had expected Steffi 's invincible reign to last for several years — when last year Graf had a bad year ( by her standards ) the men and women of the press understandably searched for reasons for it — and voiced them . |
23 | She had expected Vass 's home to be as coolly functional as his office . |
24 | The market had expected Thames , Severn Trent and North West to be listed , putting them at an immediate investment advantage to the rest of the sector . |
25 | Financial markets had expected Mr Lawson to give a clear signal on when the pound will enter the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System in a speech to the City at the Mansion House next Thursday . |
26 | The announcement came as a shock because they and other political observers had expected Mr Ben Ali to announce moves towards liberalisation in a speech he gave yesterday marking the second anniversary of his coming to power . |
27 | ‘ I had expected Mr Beckenham would have been in contact with you at least , ma'am , ’ he said with a frown . |
28 | Western diplomats had expected Mr Christopher to raise the issue of Syria 's tiny Jewish community , which was allowed to immigrate for much of last year , until Syria stopped granting exit visas . |
29 | Tainted by the worst recession in 60 years , a record 1.05 million people out of work and a perception that Labor was fatigued after ten years in office , few had expected Mr Keating to scrape in . |
30 | Prior to the Miyagi defeat most commentators had expected Miyazawa to survive as party leader at least until the elections for half of the 252 upper house seats , scheduled for July . |