Example sentences of "[adj] expect [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half expected their profits to rise while only 14 per cent predicted they would fall . |
| 2 | He threw with such power that Mungo half expected his darts to go through the board and stick in the wall . |
| 3 | Most families in a village like this expect their children to work on the farm when they get older , but in this case it was different . |
| 4 | Aware of a faint feeling of reluctance , Rory took his hand , half expecting her fingers to be crushed in a vicelike grip . |
| 5 | You are under an obligation not to use any little piece of knowledge which it is too much to expect your readers to know . |
| 6 | But I can not , and I do n't think you 'd be right to expect my officers to prepare detailed rebuttals . |
| 7 | Retailers , wholesalers and motor traders all expect their businesses to become worse over the next three months . |
| 8 | Retailers , wholesalers and motor traders all expect their businesses to become worse over the next three months . |
| 9 | We all expect our spreadsheets to calculate efficiently — whether they 're DOS or Windows-based — with sophisticated tools like backwards goal-seeking and statistical ‘ what if ’ analysis commonplace under the Tools menu . |
| 10 | It 's no good expecting your child to let you know where he or she is and then get hopping mad when they ring at three in the morning . |
| 11 | Suppose that the macroeconomic model we are estimating states that consumption expenditure in period t depends upon what people in period t — 1 expect their income will be in period t , that is : where C t is desired consumption expenditure , is expected income , t is a random error with zero mean and constant variance , α is a constant , and α : 1 is the marginal propensity to consume ( MPC ) out of expected income . |