Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or if the horse has been jabbed in the mouth when it is being mounted , it goes on expecting pain in the mouth whenever it is mounted . |
| 2 | The small factory she 'd approached to undertake the making of the curtains , cushions and loose covers told her they 'd be ready to start in a few weeks ' time , and even allowing for this wildly optimistic schedule , she felt she ought to know when to expect delivery of the fabrics . |
| 3 | But Benny had not grown up expecting life to be totally perfect . |
| 4 | She 'd never expected rockets to go off and stars to shoot in all directions — leastways , not from just a casual brush of flesh against flesh … |
| 5 | That has begun shipping to members , and SAG optimistically expects products complying to the specification to be around by the end of year . |
| 6 | One visitor went there expecting obfuscation , for I have read Sartre on art and think that Sartre on cricket would be just as illuminating . |
| 7 | He did not expect forgiveness . |
| 8 | She did not expect letters but on hearing from her the news of Hal 's birth , they had at once despatched an enormous bearskin : a gift for the child . |
| 9 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 10 | Recalled from America in 1806 by the Grenville–Fox government , Merry , a Pittite , did not expect reassignment . |
| 11 | But they surely did not expect Lothar to accept these terms . |
| 12 | He did not expect Osman openly to agree but he thought it quite likely that the Sheikh might indicate his willingness to accept Owen 's proposition . |
| 13 | The government , which did not expect Sweden to gain admission to the EC before 1994 , had previously expressed interest in framing a joint application with Norway and Finland . |
| 14 | Shieldaig did not expect visitors and there was no welcome for strangers . |
| 15 | System builders that Microprocessor Report spoke to at Comdex last month said they did not expect volume production of Intel Corp 's Pentium chip until mid-1993 at best , suggesting the part has slipped another few months . |
| 16 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 17 | She did not expect Diana to tell her friends or for Morton to be given any more secret details about the royals . |
| 18 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
| 19 | We do not expect doctors to run an intensive care unit simply by measuring the pulse rates of their patients . |
| 20 | We do not expect prices to rise generally for a further two years . |
| 21 | The committee do not expect members participating to be put to any expense or undue trouble , the proposal is merely to be an ‘ old boy ’ friend in a strange town or country . |
| 22 | The Zande do not expect things to work unless they are properly made . |
| 23 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
| 24 | Do not expect equipment to withstand abuse , if it did it would be unaffordable . |
| 25 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 26 | Lawson says do not expect EMS news |
| 27 | They do not expect security guarantees . |
| 28 | ‘ We tell our residents that we offer homes for life , and we do not expect people to move on , ’ she explained . |
| 29 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
| 30 | We gave up expecting GLF to solve our problems because we could see that it was essentially a movement built around the freedom to choose and practise your own sexuality . |