Example sentences of "[verb] expect a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I 'd expected a stunt-man who pulled off hair-raising feats for kicks . |
| 2 | Mercury says to expect an announcement in a couple of months . |
| 3 | After that she came to expect a kiss whenever we met or parted — if we were alone , of course . |
| 4 | Alice Mair said calmly : ‘ Good afternoon , Ryan , ’ but did not appear to expect an answer . |
| 5 | You and Daddy seem to expect a freedom for yourselves you have no intention of awarding me . ’ |
| 6 | But other games tonight : At Buckingham Road , Aylesbury United , third from top in the Vauxhall Premier , they 're playing the side who were top — Kingstonian , so they 're going to expect a crowd of nearly two thousand . |
| 7 | Windows World , which is effectively Microsoft 's booth there , is spread over two halls and we 're told to expect a cast of thousands of independent software vendors in supporting roles . |
| 8 | Malcolm had been told to expect a prison sentence , but the judge took pity on him , saying that he had been provoked by racial abuse from drunken louts . |
| 9 | We have been told to expect a fax with the final decision at around midnight on Thursday . ’ |
| 10 | We arrived at 9.30 , went through the usual contortions to buy a ticket , and were told to expect a train at 10.30 . |
| 11 | But even before she started to interview torturers , she ‘ had stopped expecting a monster ’ . |
| 12 | Well I 'll be contacting them in the next fortnight er if and to make be able to pass on my card , I 'll leave you two cards so that they , they know to expect a phone call from myself . |
| 13 | Eventually he released her with what appeared to be reluctance , which was strange , she thought , because she would have expected a man with his inhibitions about women to have just brushed her mouth briefly and then dropped her like a glowing ember . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If they 'd played badly they might have expected a hiding . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 18 | She would never have expected a cheer . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She should have known — should have expected a scorpion to use subtle tactics . |
| 21 | I would have expected a letter from him . |
| 22 | You might have expected a howl of derision to greet this cry , but it did not come . |
| 23 | Some detector users living in Kent might have expected an invitation but did n't get one , while at least two of those invited ( who have made no mention of the meeting on the several occasions I have spoken to them ) do not live in Kent . |
| 24 | It was the sort of time and place where one might have expected an idea , the spring of a poem to well up from the quiet and the beauty . |
| 25 | One might have expected an examination of the non-economic bases of liberal democracy or of bureaucracy in understanding the distinction between ‘ class power ’ and ‘ state power ’ , or ‘ the specificity of the political ’ ( Laclau , 1977 ) . |
| 26 | None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test and most reported finding it extremely difficult . |
| 27 | No subjects reported having expected a memory test even though many of them had already taken part in Study 1 . |
| 28 | None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test . |
| 29 | This effect was greater for subjects reading aloud than for silent reading and larger again for subjects who were led to expect a test on what they had read . |
| 30 | Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came . |