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 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was my first attempt at this and I did not know quite what to expect . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | They 'd all got too cold and run home I expect |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Still , those who make it are a great bunch — and they know exactly what to expect — ‘ Holidays that Satisfy ’ — I 'll say . |
| 11 | Every time I returned home I expected to find the police waiting . |
| 12 | They confronted the best in the world without knowing exactly what to expect . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | No indeed , one never knew quite what to expect from the gentry . |
| 15 | She knew vaguely what to expect . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ It will take him six weeks to recover so we expect him to be out of action for longer than that , ’ the spokesman added . |
| 20 | ‘ It will take him six weeks to recover so we expect him to be out of action for longer than that , ’ the spokesman added . |
| 21 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 22 | Wolfgang Roller , chairman of Dresdner Bank , said yesterday he expected long-term rates to fall by nearly two points and inflation to average 4 p.c. as the German economy recovers . |
| 23 | Transport minister Roger Freeman said yesterday he expected legislation to begin in the new year and be complete by October . |
| 24 | A US military spokesman , Colonel Fred Peck , said yesterday he expected about 4,200 troops to travel by sea from Mogadishu to Kismayu within the next 24 hours . |
| 25 | AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Paul Keating said today he expected to discuss his country 's push to become a republic with the Queen during his stay at Balmoral next week . |
| 26 | She said is he taking anybody and I said well I expect so . |