Example sentences of "[adv] expect [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They only expect 12 around the dinner table these days at the family home at Stanton Harcourt . |
| 2 | Lisa had not expected that of him . |
| 3 | People are realizing that you just can not expect much of them and that one way of improving local lives is to get together in local communities and groups and participating wider area networks and in such coalitions of people , th th they manage to keep some sort of community spirit and activity going . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I did not expect that from you . ’ |
| 5 | Naturally you should not expect this to be a full consultation , but it should give you time to see how you relate to the particular therapist concerned and how much confidence you feel in him . |
| 6 | But he said : ‘ We would not expect this to be the case when the ambulance station is within a few hundred yards of the person who made the call . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I did not expect this from you , Louisa . |
| 8 | I would not normally expect this from a Severum — but then I have never heard of a Severum eating Halfbeaks . |
| 9 | I was not expecting any of you . ’ |
| 10 | So not every teacher was one hundred per cent successful with mixed ability teaching , but I do n't think one can ever expect that with a new method and I think now that the system has been running for a number of years in the school that it 's possible for each department to support new members of staff and introduce them to the appropriate methods and approaches to mixed ability classes . |
| 11 | So , not every teacher was one hundred per cent successful with mixed ability teaching , but I do n't think one can ever expect that with a new method . |
| 12 | Such a thing is certainly not to be found on this earth ; yet those who pick to pieces the open texture or verbal infelicities of an international Convention rarely pause to consider how , when legislation prepared in a single legal system is generally so verbose , obscure , and generally badly drafted , one can reasonably expect more of the product of many hands drawn from widely differing legal systems with different cultures , legal structures , and methods of legal reasoning and decision-making , entailing maximum flexibility , co-operation , and compromise . |
| 13 | After today 's announcement , the miners there now expect that to be done . |
| 14 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
| 15 | If you do n't expect much from little Tommy then , little Tommy is less and less likely to give you anything much ! |
| 16 | ‘ You do n't expect that for a job paying £120 a week take home . |
| 17 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 18 | ‘ It hurt , all right , ’ he said , ‘ but I did n't expect that to be the result of the accident . |
| 19 | I do n't expect you to remember Higginbottom and Smith fifty four y'know I do n't expect that in an exam . |
| 20 | I do n't expect any of the players in Cwmni Theatr y Dreflan will suffer from any such illusions of greatness . |
| 21 | I did n't expect this of you . |
| 22 | The special analyst they got for Italia 90 was Docherty , and he was , on the whole , pretty pathetic ( although I was amazed when , during England- Cameroun , he stated that England was playing terribly ; did n't expect this from someone commenting for a TV audience which was solidly pro-England ) . |
| 23 | He half expected one of the police to dart forward and rearrange her-hair . |
| 24 | But then Ronni had never expected that of Arnie . |
| 25 | Even if labour moves between firms , they carry with them more skill and experience than a new recruit and may therefore expect this to be rewarded . |