Example sentences of "[pron] expect [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the settlers got to Virginia , everyone expected the gentlemen of the party to run things , just as in England . |
| 2 | I expected the Polynesians there to be just as subject to the ailments of the flesh as anywhere else in the world — especially polio — otherwise what would they need a doctor for ? |
| 3 | But I expect no favours from Graham when it comes to team selection and I know they wo n't be offered . |
| 4 | Josh does n't have much of an appetite at present , but I expect the boys will be hungry when they get home from school . ’ |
| 5 | Erm yeah I expect the answers will be at the back . |
| 6 | I expect the improvements in services that Londoners should see in the coming years to speak for themselves , but there is no room for complacency . |
| 7 | I expect the conditions in some of the houses you went into were , were er pretty poor . |
| 8 | The Economist circulation is now five hundred and twenty five thousand each week , and although their er year is out of sync with ours , I expect the profits for the year to be at or near record levels once again . |
| 9 | Wednesday is Fantasy day in the Torygraph so I expect the details to be in there again next week , as nothing more will have happened by then fantasy-wise cos there are no Premiership games . |
| 10 | ‘ I expect the humans are wondering who 's causing all this trouble . ’ |
| 11 | Ask what do I expect the nurses to do at the end of the workshop . |
| 12 | Nobody expected the pupils to be paragons of perfection The standards the principal expected of herself were a different matter entirely . |
| 13 | She expected no favours from Ace , and he would be the last to give her any as far as her job was concerned . |
| 14 | As she expected the children had vanished perhaps into the trees . |
| 15 | You expect the servants to nick the silver , not the guests . ’ |
| 16 | You expect the attendants to look like Peter Cushing . |
| 17 | This is a meandering , innocent instrumental structured so that , at any moment , you expect the vocals to drop in and the ‘ song ’ -proper to begin , but you know it never needs to . |
| 18 | What changes would you expect the farmers to make if ( i ) the price of milk fell considerably , ( ii ) the EEC guaranteed price for beef fell sharply ? |
| 19 | She was puzzled for some moments as to the source of the smell , so little did she expect the brothers would be so dirty . |
| 20 | Likewise , she expects the children to operate intuitively in their make-believe , but she believes the intuition can be a refined instrument , accompanied by a high degree of awareness , at its best , bringing about reflection on what one experiences even as one experiences it . |
| 21 | As we look in closer to the centre , we expect the stars to be more closely packed together , and in this central pan of IRS 16 the infrared radiation comes from thousands of ordinary stars packed into a region only a hundred times larger than the Solar System . |
| 22 | Telnitz is some way ahead of you ; we expect the forces there to take the initial impact of the assault . ’ |
| 23 | We expect the authorities to come up with imaginative schemes , designed to tackle specific local crime problems , such as kerb crawling , mugging and burglary . |
| 24 | We expect the findings the final findings to be in the Autumn of this year now . |
| 25 | We expect the away-days to be 13 October and 8 December 1990 , and 19 January and 16 March 1991 . |
| 26 | They are , in part , inevitable in writing , especially when the writer is thinking hard , and may be missed when the piece is proof-read , because we expect the words to be correct , and read them as though they were . |
| 27 | Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers ; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumber carnivores . |
| 28 | Nor could we expect the adherents of each approach to treat any anomaly as a reason for rejecting it . |
| 29 | And what do we expect the tenants on another sink estate to do when their toilets overflow , spewing sewage from the pipes outside over their bathroom floors ? |
| 30 | No one expects the editors to commit themselves before receiving a submitted paper , but some indication of the degree of pleasure with which a resubmission would be received would be welcome . |