Example sentences of "[adv] expect [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was evident was that they had all expected Comrade Andrew to join them , even Alice , who knew he disapproved . |
| 2 | Monica had drifted half-way back to the main road , apparently expecting Alice not to reappear . |
| 3 | He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman . |
| 4 | Certainly she had not expected Felipe , and her tears stopped suddenly as she absorbed this new shock . |
| 5 | He had not expected Wang to be so upset , so patently indignant . |
| 6 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
| 7 | We can not expect Britain to influence the direction the Community takes in the next decade unless it is a full and enthusiastic member . |
| 8 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 9 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
| 10 | He did not expect Osman openly to agree but he thought it quite likely that the Sheikh might indicate his willingness to accept Owen 's proposition . |
| 11 | Given those characteristics we should not expect BBC and ITV viewers to be influenced in different ways . |
| 12 | The government , which did not expect Sweden to gain admission to the EC before 1994 , had previously expressed interest in framing a joint application with Norway and Finland . |
| 13 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 14 | Lawson says do not expect EMS news |
| 15 | She did not expect Diana to tell her friends or for Morton to be given any more secret details about the royals . |
| 16 | It is a sound maxim that you do not ask the barber whether you need a haircut , and if Prof Paulos is not a wholly disinterested party in matters of numeracy , you will certainly not expect Arno Penzias , a distinguished physicist and vice-president for research at the Bell Telephone Laboratories of AT&T , to be less than sanguine about the remorseless advance of information technology . |
| 17 | Joshua Morris , who was not expecting Felicity to join him until late afternoon , determined to spend the morning wandering the streets of central Brighton . |
| 18 | Good concept , bad timing , she says , not expecting Microsoft to deliver the scalable , rich operating system developers are looking for from them for ‘ at least three years , and more likely five . ’ |
| 19 | Few people ever expected Sally-Anne to do as she was told . |
| 20 | ‘ But you still expected Sir Thomas to win ? |
| 21 | I still expect Italy to win this group . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , you 'd hardly expect Jim Lancaster to ring me up and confess , would you ? ’ |
| 23 | ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’ |
| 24 | He has a lifetime 's belongings here and we could hardly expect Carrie to move into Fern Cottage . ’ |
| 25 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |
| 26 | We could hardly expect Jennifer to want to go to that place if he 's going to be there . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Are you still expecting Adam to join you ? ’ he enquired , an edge of frost creeping into his tone . |
| 28 | During dinner at the Pheasantry , Ian clearly expected Clare to be frivolously entertaining . |
| 29 | Cynically , Leila considered Lazar probably expected Nathan to indulge in a little snooping for him , find out what Roirbak was working on nowadays . |
| 30 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |