Example sentences of "[adv] expect [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worst affected is your love life , so expect dates to be cancelled or romantic liaisons to be put on ice . |
| 2 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 3 | He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman . |
| 4 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |
| 5 | He had not expected Wang to be so upset , so patently indignant . |
| 6 | We should thus expect resistance from workers to attempts by management to wrest control from them , and the historical evidence for this is now forthcoming . |
| 7 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 8 | He does not expect miracles from Lennie and is not at all surprised when Lennie forgets things , even though he gets angry at him . |
| 9 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 10 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
| 11 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 12 | Directors do not normally expect payment for their services though a small gift might be appropriate . |
| 13 | The Purchaser will normally expect warranties from all Vendors — whether or not they worked or will work in the business . |
| 14 | Britain is at the stage when we must no longer expect sections of our land to be retained for the benefit of the few , when they could be used to provide jobs for the many . |
| 15 | Did n't he think she was sophisticated enough not to expect commitment after a one-night stand ? |
| 16 | Married women who had not been receiving support from their husband when they were first interviewed , and were therefore not expecting support from him during subsequent crises , had a much reduced risk of depression if they received help from someone else whom they had named as very close at the first interview . |
| 17 | Jacob was not expecting forgiveness from his brother . |
| 18 | Bates — Not expecting miracles against France |
| 19 | We 're not expecting trouble from them and we 're there to help and direct them into the areas where they can get into the ground . |
| 20 | Nicholson 's customers are not price sensitive explains Tony , although he stresses that this is different to not expecting value for money . |
| 21 | While teachers would presumably like a class of thirty hermaphroditic paragons , they nonetheless expect pupils to ‘ deviate ’ from this — and on sex-differentiated lines . |
| 22 | The limitations of this role are considerable , and such people can hardly expect others to be receptive , forthcoming and responsive towards them . |
| 23 | We can therefore hardly expect change from individual departments : they lack an appreciation of the curriculum as a whole and are inherently inclined to defend their own interests . |
| 24 | Or if the horse has been jabbed in the mouth when it is being mounted , it goes on expecting pain in the mouth whenever it is mounted . |
| 25 | During dinner at the Pheasantry , Ian clearly expected Clare to be frivolously entertaining . |
| 26 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 27 | Sotheby 's confidently expect bids of over $10 million ( £6.6 million ) . |
| 28 | Where , say , tench are concerned , you can confidently expect tench in the early morning and know your chances are practically non-existent in the afternoon , which is the case on almost all tench waters . |
| 29 | We can also expect de-recognition by employers who are frightened to death by the T & G. It it 's already happening . |
| 30 | But Benny had not grown up expecting life to be totally perfect . |