At the same time, the novel finds more to object to in the less objectionable aspects of these activities than many readers might anticipate.

Make the reader anticipate what's next.

The reader should anticipate the boyfriend's awfulness, but the woman writer doesn't see it coming.

Burgess alluded to the toy surprise we readers usually anticipate: a narrative thrust, a partial answer to a past question.

The reader anticipates what these "hordes" will reveal to the reader as well as the author.

Now, how can the reader anticipate the author if all the rules are strange?

What they have to say is utterly unlike anything Stasov, or the reader, could have anticipated.

After chapter six, the reader already anticipates the conclusion.

It is, as the reader will anticipate, a feeble beverage, but very pleasant to the taste.

The story is so artfully conducted that the reader cannot easily anticipate the denouement.