Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 2 | SUPERNOVAE Starfield Guitars I did n't know exactly what to expect upon opening these guitar cases , but I found myself in danger of becoming seriously enthusiastic about the contents … |
| 3 | ‘ But maybe this time they wo n't know exactly what to expect from us . ’ |
| 4 | He had known nothing of her plans , he did not know now what to expect , why this confining door should ever have been opened now , at this end of the day , after all permitted visits were over . |
| 5 | It was back to the books to find out what to expect . |
| 6 | I would like to take you , stage by stage , through a typical case so that you may know precisely what to expect in both present-life and past-life regression . |
| 7 | I do n't know how they expect to get anything out of it . |
| 8 | It was my first attempt at this and I did not know quite what to expect . |
| 9 | Looking down she expected to see blood , awfulness , something dead . |
| 10 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 11 | We must start to define where we expect genuine refugees to come from . |
| 12 | They 'd all got too cold and run home I expect |
| 13 | Canan and her boss know exactly what to expect from each other : ‘ It 's far easier for me to work for another Turk because I can talk about pay rates and things like that more openly . |
| 14 | Still , those who make it are a great bunch — and they know exactly what to expect — ‘ Holidays that Satisfy ’ — I 'll say . |
| 15 | Every time I returned home I expected to find the police waiting . |
| 16 | She had known not what to expect but she was certainly unprepared to find them alone together so soon . |
| 17 | I should need to go in on the eleventh to clear up I expect . |
| 18 | A porpoise never appears where you expect it to ! |
| 19 | She knew not what to expect , or what would happen next . |
| 20 | They confronted the best in the world without knowing exactly what to expect . |
| 21 | and these and these rents have gone up I expect Nora 's flat has gone up |
| 22 | Our usual nervousness about meeting clients seemed more intense this bright morning for neither of us knew quite what to expect of the senator 's children . |
| 23 | No indeed , one never knew quite what to expect from the gentry . |
| 24 | She knew vaguely what to expect . |
| 25 | I mean sometimes you expect him to laugh and he does n't laugh like he says something funny and I say something funny back to him , but he does n't laugh . |
| 26 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 27 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 28 | And his head was spinning from walking so far ; he walked everywhere , and though he stopped to eat every day when he was on one of these journeys of his he did not I expect eat especially properly . |
| 29 | ‘ When I do n't come back I expect they 'll go on without be . |
| 30 | Did n't you expect them to write to you ? ’ |