Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 2 | I 'm so glad you did n't disappoint me — just the greeting I expected . |
| 3 | Always ready to look on the bright side she expected that the remission would last for a long time , and there was a conspiracy between Maureen and her mother to conceal Julia 's suffering from her . |
| 4 | In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child . |
| 5 | However , having made an investment they expected it to pay its way and any development towards being a full-time farmer would depend very much on market prices . |
| 6 | Alex ! ’ he cried out , not knowing what reply he expected . |
| 7 | ‘ Because , as it turns out , you 've developed the intelligence I expected of you , and I suppose there 's some excuse for what you were at nineteen . |
| 8 | When I was finally allowed up and I went back to my own home I expected to forget you . |
| 9 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 10 | Clearly it was done at Oliver 's invitation and Rain would normally have welcomed company ; but in her glum mood she expected Oliver would flirt with Linda , and Linda would be amused at Rain 's expense , and it would be quite impossible to spoil their fun by mentioning that Oliver was leaving Kington Square . |
| 11 | But he wanted a nice girl who expected the ring . |
| 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 | We need not inquire what benefit he expected to derive . |
| 14 | The running started because of my father , he was the kind who expected results from his children . |
| 15 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 16 | For a moment I expected a knuckle-rapping response , but after a brief hesitation , he said , ‘ My verse was obscure because I was obscure to myself . |
| 17 | At any moment I expected one of the masters , placed at strategic intervals to stop a guy taking short cuts or lighting up a Havana cigar , to leap out from a place of concealment , brandishing The Times and bellowing , ‘ Come on , Britton ! |
| 18 | Torquay was the last place I expected something like this to happen . ’ |
| 19 | It was the sort of jargon I expected from you-know-who . |
| 20 | In my warm , sleepy contentment I expected it to be Toby , the Toby of before . |
| 21 | At every moment she expected the girl behind the desk to call her back : ‘ Hey , you ! ’ and question her right to be here . |
| 22 | At any moment she expected to hear his voice behind her , calling her back . |
| 23 | That evening she expected Edward to join them for dinner at the house . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In one market , though , western companies have been denied the walk-over they expected : newspapers . |
| 26 | Already in October 1953 the British defence chiefs had warned that in a world war they expected the main and first Soviet nuclear assault to be directed against the British Isles . |
| 27 | All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records . |
| 28 | In his thriving shop he expected only specialist collectors to be interested but he is surprised and delighted to find that 95% of the customers buy on aesthetic appeal . |
| 29 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 30 | Reviewers would put ‘ When I first heard the name I expected four guys in Factory haircuts ’ . |