Example sentences of "[pron] expect [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected far greater progress than this . |
| 2 | I expect so this is that |
| 3 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
| 4 | A Finn represented the fusion of Scandinavia and Hungary ( to which country they were first cousins ) so no doubt she expected too much of Erkki . |
| 5 | Bertha Cohen snorted as if to convey that she expected as little from grandchildren as from children . |
| 6 | When he pulled her back she expected very harsh reprisals but all she got was a very speculating look . |
| 7 | He did not want anyone to get too close to him , especially after his years with Vivien , and there was a point at which he withdrew from those who expected too great an intimacy . |
| 8 | ‘ You expected too much of me , then ! |
| 9 | Had n't she expected as much ? |
| 10 | December 22 , 1845 : People used to say to me , ‘ You expect too much — you are too romantic ’ . |
| 11 | He says : ‘ If you expect too much of people , you are going to be disappointed . |
| 12 | ‘ You expect too much . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You expect too much of me , Maria , ’ he told her tautly . |
| 14 | ‘ You expect too much , ’ said Tuathal . |
| 15 | ‘ You expect too much . |
| 16 | It is a relief I suppose today , that I am able to speak to you on the basis erm of financial output which is a good deal more favourable than we expected even six months ago . |
| 17 | Gross margin was as we expected broadly level with the second half of last year . |
| 18 | In last week 's edition of The Sunday Telegraph , Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote : ’ It was a woman speaking from inside Dubrovnik against a background of shellfire who said : We expected so much from Europe and got so little . ' |
| 19 | ‘ Now that we are scrapping the supplement completely , we expect even more interest . |
| 20 | We expect so much of them . |
| 21 | For example , in the Raman spectrum of CO 2 we expect only one fundamental , due to the symmetric stretch , of symmetry species . |
| 22 | ‘ We expect highly competitive prices with cost reduction opportunities which come through innovation by the supplier . ’ |
| 23 | If we expect that much , it gives Him a chance to work . ’ |
| 24 | Criticism of the retraining schemes is often that they train people for jobs that are not always available to them and they expect too much mobility from people who have further reasons , in their disability , for being reluctant to move from their familiar surroundings . |
| 25 | So , while in 1814 the prime criticism of the idea was that it expected too much of human nature , too much of the people who were to live in the communities and of those who were to put them there , while then it was in short a social criticism , by 1832 the idea had become an economic nonsense . |
| 26 | The company says that while it expected somewhat lower revenue in the first quarter because of seasonal factors and a product transition to R4000-based systems , the revenue decline was principally down to deferrals in customer orders and licensing activity as a result of the announcement of the proposed merger deal . |
| 27 | A US military spokesman , Colonel Fred Peck , said yesterday he expected about 4,200 troops to travel by sea from Mogadishu to Kismayu within the next 24 hours . |
| 28 | never is good enough and he expects too much |
| 29 | Right , well I think the biggest problem with Trust Law is that it expects too much of trustees . |