Example sentences of "[pron] expect [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my union branch , as in many others , I expect the best activists to be voting Labour . |
| 2 | I 'm paying top dollar and I expect the best . |
| 3 | No doubt the clients he entertained here were people who expected the best . |
| 4 | But the first time the breadhead says it , you expect the worst : he 'll ask you to thieve , to sell your body , to start a life of crime . |
| 5 | It is then that we expect the best group from Southern Africa to be there , including the Homeland leaders . |
| 6 | Certainly we expect the biggest increase to be in long-haul carriage . |
| 7 | When we make it obvious that we expect the worst from people , the worst is usually what we get . |
| 8 | Cynical almost to a man , they expected the worst , and had come to write their stories of poor abused children , evil parents , and the things that ‘ incomers ’ get up to in remote islands . |
| 9 | Ake Lundqvist , an Ericsson senior vice-president , told Reuters that he expects the greatest growth to be in Japan with an additional 1m units sold . |