Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In my wildest dreams the most I expected was to come on and get maybe a quarter of an hour . |
| 2 | I do n't see the resemblance of Stu and Paul Young though , perhaps I expected someone with Spiky hair & black leather trousers . |
| 3 | So you expected the King ? ’ |
| 4 | Looking down she expected to see blood , awfulness , something dead . |
| 5 | Perhaps he expected some protest from Constanza , a declaration , perhaps he hoped for it . |
| 6 | Perhaps he expected her to curtsy . |
| 7 | However carefully and reverently the job was going to be handled , obviously he expected nothing but disaster . |
| 8 | Somehow I expected to hear ‘ eggs ’ — well you would , would n't you ? |
| 9 | Whether or not they expected it when they were first elected , nearly all of them will have learned to accept ant to derive fulfilment from the ‘ welfare ’ function . |
| 10 | Somehow he expected TOP to be different . |
| 11 | Every time I returned home I expected to find the police waiting . |
| 12 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 13 | Wolfgang Roller , chairman of Dresdner Bank , said yesterday he expected long-term rates to fall by nearly two points and inflation to average 4 p.c. as the German economy recovers . |
| 14 | Transport minister Roger Freeman said yesterday he expected legislation to begin in the new year and be complete by October . |
| 15 | A US military spokesman , Colonel Fred Peck , said yesterday he expected about 4,200 troops to travel by sea from Mogadishu to Kismayu within the next 24 hours . |
| 16 | of matches under the sleeve and showed one secured by an elastic band which clearly one expected to be the cause of the rattling noise . |
| 17 | It was a calculated guess but sooner or later he expected to hit lucky , and here on the fringe of a large private estate the chances were better than anywhere . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , to be honest , by now I expected you to be shrugging your shoulders and turning the car for home . |
| 19 | But then it happened , the incredible , miraculous luck that now she expected , since it happened so easily and often : the telephone rang in the next room . |
| 20 | When he pulled her back she expected very harsh reprisals but all she got was a very speculating look . |
| 21 | Now they expected information from him . |
| 22 | Any moment now they expected that the Collector would make up his mind to do something about it . |
| 23 | And no doubt now he expected her to be suitably softened up by her two days ' grieving , ready to fall back into his arms on the strength of one calculated gesture . |
| 24 | He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred . |
| 25 | ‘ And you have been more quick-witted than even I expected . ’ |
| 26 | AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Paul Keating said today he expected to discuss his country 's push to become a republic with the Queen during his stay at Balmoral next week . |
| 27 | Samuel Oldknow was generally regarded as a humane employer , but even he expected his apprentices to work for thirteen hours . |
| 28 | I went over budget but then I expected I would . |
| 29 | Yeah , its within your budget and you 've done well , I went over budget , but then I expected I would , because for one thing I was buying for more . |
| 30 | ‘ And everything 's just not quite how I expected it . |