Example sentences of "[verb] expect [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social workers appear to expect few benefits to accrue from residential care . |
| 2 | Of course , one has to expect such things to occur amongst maids and footmen , and a good butler should always take this into account in his planning ; but such marrying amongst more senior employees can have an extremely disruptive effect on work . |
| 3 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 4 | One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time . |
| 5 | Well I would have expected those premises not to be selling intoxicating liquors you 've obviously not had a licence for a month . |
| 6 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |