Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] expect " in BNC.

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1 erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem .
2 It will not say how many subscribers it has — only that it expects to sign up no more than a couple of dozen by the autumn .
3 Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley .
4 Not that we expect to be Martini .
5 Not that I expected any .
6 Not that I expect you to heed my warning .
7 Not that I expect someone like you to ’
8 Not that I expect you to be so baby-besotted as the people round here — with good cause , of course , as Ewan has to be a paragon !
9 ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name .
10 Not that she expected there would be .
11 He did n't love her , of course , not that she expected him to , but he had n't been backward in the lovemaking department , had he ?
12 Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 .
13 Should the ensuing insomnia mean dropping off during the day , then again you will be awakened , this time by real Hercules transport planes — Elveden Forest , being in East Anglia , is very close to numerous air-bases and so many jets scream overhead that one expects any minute to bump into a tight-lipped Kate Adie dressed in camouflage fatigues .
14 Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool .
15 ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped .
16 We reached Chelalo on the Arussi mountains in the afternoon of 5 October ; it was here that we expected to find nyala .
17 It is then that we expect the best group from Southern Africa to be there , including the Homeland leaders .
18 Was there anything else that you expected to find amongst your mother 's papers that you did not ? ’
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