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 | Few people ever expected Sally-Anne to do as she was told . |
| 4 | ‘ But you still expected Sir Thomas to win ? |
| 5 | I still expect Italy to win this group . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you 'd hardly expect Jim Lancaster to ring me up and confess , would you ? ’ |
| 7 | ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’ |
| 8 | He has a lifetime 's belongings here and we could hardly expect Carrie to move into Fern Cottage . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We could hardly expect Jennifer to want to go to that place if he 's going to be there . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Are you still expecting Adam to join you ? ’ he enquired , an edge of frost creeping into his tone . |
| 12 | During dinner at the Pheasantry , Ian clearly expected Clare to be frivolously entertaining . |
| 13 | Cynically , Leila considered Lazar probably expected Nathan to indulge in a little snooping for him , find out what Roirbak was working on nowadays . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Martin Pipe camp believe that they would have beaten Morley Street granted a faster pace in the Elite Hurdle here last month , but I doubt it and confidently expect Toby Balding 's star to confirm his superiority on 6lb better terms . |
| 16 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |
| 17 | The Right will clearly expect Mr Hamilton to keep in check some of Mr Heseltine 's more interventionist policies . |
| 18 | It was a very contrary thought ; after all , she had been so vague that last night together , making excuses to go back to England and honestly expecting Fernando to override them and come charging after her , exercising the caveman approach that a lot of women , in spite of their liberation , still craved — in this case Ruth , astonishingly , being one of them . |
| 19 | He also expects US venture capital group Advent , to sell its 6.4% holding in the firm . |
| 20 | And I do n't think I really expected Feargal to go down to Rosslare ! |
| 21 | Those who know southern England might well expect Wallingford to be already a mere dormitory of London . |
| 22 | Even accounting for Spartak 's counter-attacking skills , I fully expect Liverpool to reach the quarter-finals , especially if Russian keeper Stanislav Cherchesov has one of his unconvincing nights . |
| 23 | Even accounting for Spartak 's counterattacking skills , I fully expect Liverpool to reach the quarter-finals , especially if Russian keeper Stanislav Cherchesov has one of his unconvincing nights . |
| 24 | Miller fully expects Solaris 2.0 to appear on other CPU architectures in future , courtesy of third parties . |
| 25 | ‘ I never expected Maurice to die in such a way . |
| 26 | It had been the same at the airport and I had thought then that perhaps he half expected Iris Sunderby to materialise out of the crowd . |
| 27 | She half expected Guy to wrench her face back up to his and braced herself to resist , but to her astonishment he laughed softly . |
| 28 | But you can never expect Horowitz to toe the party line which is why , in the end , he succeeded in making so many first-rate recordings . |
| 29 | Should we not therefore expect God 's gifts to have their satanic counterpart ? |