Example sentences of "[verb] expect [art] [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 | It seemed that he 'd expected the animal 's response to be more intense on the second day , but it actually scored lower on his scale . |
| 3 | Mercury says to expect an announcement in a couple of months . |
| 4 | After that she came to expect a kiss whenever we met or parted — if we were alone , of course . |
| 5 | Alice Mair said calmly : ‘ Good afternoon , Ryan , ’ but did not appear to expect an answer . |
| 6 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 7 | You and Daddy seem to expect a freedom for yourselves you have no intention of awarding me . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We have been told to expect a fax with the final decision at around midnight on Thursday . ’ |
| 12 | We arrived at 9.30 , went through the usual contortions to buy a ticket , and were told to expect a train at 10.30 . |
| 13 | The operator was told to expect the ambulance in five to seven minutes . |
| 14 | IBM Corp is reportedly getting set to trade in its graphics for stuff OEM 'd from Kubota Pacific Computer Inc : we 're told to expect the announcement before the end of the year — at Super Computing ‘ 92 perhaps . |
| 15 | But even before she started to interview torturers , she ‘ had stopped expecting a monster ’ . |
| 16 | They had long since stopped expecting the world to deal kindly with them : they had used up their good fortune by remaining alive when the Plague came . |
| 17 | People really began to expect the war to end in August , or at the latest in September . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Henry can have expected no difficulty . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If they 'd played badly they might have expected a hiding . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She would never have expected a cheer . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She should have known — should have expected a scorpion to use subtle tactics . |
| 28 | I would have expected a letter from him . |
| 29 | You might have expected a howl of derision to greet this cry , but it did not come . |
| 30 | 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 . |