Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I half expected five-year-olds to be making funny remarks about them behind my back . |
| 2 | Just wanted to clarify that little point , so you know the organs that make up the circulatory system , you know how to check it , you know the one slight difference than what you normally expect veins and arteries to be doing okay ? |
| 3 | ‘ In a bear market you normally expect shares to drop 15 to 25 per cent over 18 months . |
| 4 | You sometimes expect MPs ' houses to be reeking of power but this was a nice family house with lots of bicycles around the place . |
| 5 | Almost all the words which have both a strong and weak form belong to a category that may be called function words — words that do not have a dictionary meaning in the way that we normally expect nouns , verbs , adjectives and adverbs to have . |
| 6 | While teachers would presumably like a class of thirty hermaphroditic paragons , they nonetheless expect pupils to ‘ deviate ’ from this — and on sex-differentiated lines . |
| 7 | It now expects profits of £225m against earlier hopes of £243m . |