Example sentences of "expected a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might have expected a howl of derision to greet this cry , but it did not come . |
| 2 | As a young girl , Isabel Lavender had expected a great deal . |
| 3 | City analysts had expected a further £50m worth of debt repayment during the month . |
| 4 | He had expected a butler or some obsequious manservant , at the least a maid or companion , to welcome them into a room shining with silver and silk carpets . |
| 5 | I suppose I 'd expected a stunt-man who pulled off hair-raising feats for kicks . |
| 6 | English mathematics had been in a contemptible state for so long that one could hardly have expected a solution to such an important problem to come from that quarter . |
| 7 | This later recommendation surprised many who had expected a liberal/academic working party of ‘ the great and the good ’ to turn their backs on the idea of retaining a paternalistic and arguably outmoded system of adult censorship . |
| 8 | Under these conditions they could have expected a higher failure rate . |
| 9 | I would have expected a letter from him . |
| 10 | The general relaxed and participative style of the course was enjoyed by the participants , as some had expected a ‘ chalk and talk ’ approach . |
| 11 | If they 'd played badly they might have expected a hiding . |
| 12 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 13 | Others , who unlike the Combined Operations staff , had expected a second front in Europe that summer , saw what forces would be needed to invade Europe . |
| 14 | In view of the presence of the Prince there , and especially in the light of some critical remarks he had made recently about the IRA , I had expected a posse of police to be guarding the entrance gates . |
| 15 | Whatever reaction Doyle had expected , he had n't expected a sneering laugh . |
| 16 | He could have expected a weekly salary approaching £10,000 , plus all the other expensive trimmings , if he had become Britain 's most expensive ever midfield player . |
| 17 | She had expected a deep blue Mediterranean sky . |
| 18 | He had expected a rise in road duty , but was hoping for a clearer differential between diesel and petrol prices . |
| 19 | Had Norman Lamont been making his speech to the Commons 100 years ago , he would have worn a hat and commentators would have expected a rabbit to have been produced from it . |
| 20 | One might have expected a sadistic Nightmare On Elm Street lyric to emerge from such interests , but instead he wrote the wonderfully moving ‘ Suffer Little Children ’ and later made a point of condemning Myra Hindley . |
| 21 | They found the bridge , when they arrived there , to be all that they would have expected a bridge on such a yacht to be , with a plethora of expensive and largely unnecessary navigational aids , but in all respects perfectly innocuous . |
| 22 | Leech , who had expected a generous-minded rival , was amazed at Burton 's blunt declaration that if he could not make the acting game pay well and soon , he would be off . |
| 23 | Neither Marshal Joffre , General Foch ( his deputy in the north ) nor Sir John' French had expected a German attack in Flanders . |
| 24 | He 'd expected a clandestine rendezvous — curtained windows , locked doors — not a gypsy encampment . |
| 25 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 26 | The first excursion of the new government in foreign affairs was a bitter disappointment to those who had expected a real change in American policy abroad . |
| 27 | She 'd expected a steady upward climb , but suddenly the tunnel dipped and steps went down beside a white race of water . |
| 28 | By then it was expected a set of scripts for that show would be available in rehearsal form for the Director to peruse , assess and add his contribution . |
| 29 | The paint frame had expected a delivery earlier that morning , until Haggerty 's had rung through to say the van had broken down . |
| 30 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |