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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I still expect Italy to win this group .
2	And I do n't think I really expected Feargal to go down to Rosslare !
3	Even accounting for Spartak 's counter-attacking skills , I fully expect Liverpool to reach the quarter-finals , especially if Russian keeper Stanislav Cherchesov has one of his unconvincing nights .
4	Even accounting for Spartak 's counterattacking skills , I fully expect Liverpool to reach the quarter-finals , especially if Russian keeper Stanislav Cherchesov has one of his unconvincing nights .
5	Well , I never expected sampling to be part of it all .
6	‘ I never expected travelling on foot to be so arduous , ’ she said .
7	‘ I never expected Maurice to die in such a way .
8	I half expected five-year-olds to be making funny remarks about them behind my back .
9	That fund is set to increase by a further £1 million next year , and I certainly expect motor projects to figure significantly within that increased expenditure .
10	After Auschwitz , would you not expect Germans to take every conceivable care to stop German arms filtering through to where they could threaten Israel ?
11	And David warns you not to expect gags .
12	Just wanted to clarify that little point , so you know the organs that make up the circulatory system , you know how to check it , you know the one slight difference than what you normally expect veins and arteries to be doing okay ?
13	‘ In a bear market you normally expect shares to drop 15 to 25 per cent over 18 months .
14	‘ Are you still expecting Adam to join you ? ’ he enquired , an edge of frost creeping into his tone .
15	‘ But you still expected Sir Thomas to win ?
16	You sometimes expect MPs ' houses to be reeking of power but this was a nice family house with lots of bicycles around the place .
17	She half expected Guy to wrench her face back up to his and braced herself to resist , but to her astonishment he laughed softly .
18	Almost all the words which have both a strong and weak form belong to a category that may be called function words — words that do not have a dictionary meaning in the way that we normally expect nouns , verbs , adjectives and adverbs to have .
19	We also expect marketing margins to be weaker in the first quarter because of the effect on demand of the generally mild weather .
20	We now expect protest , more dialogue .
21	They just expect software and networking capabilities added in .
22	The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life .
23	While teachers would presumably like a class of thirty hermaphroditic paragons , they nonetheless expect pupils to ‘ deviate ’ from this — and on sex-differentiated lines .
24	They still want value for their money — but they also expect quality and style .
25	He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war .
26	He also expects US venture capital group Advent , to sell its 6.4% holding in the firm .
27	It now expects profits of £225m against earlier hopes of £243m .
28	Was it because he had n't spotted it , or because he felt it would be dishonest to do so , or because he never expected criticism ?
29	It had been the same at the airport and I had thought then that perhaps he half expected Iris Sunderby to materialise out of the crowd .
30	He half expected ocean , the white towers of Moon Beach , but there was only land , land that looked infinite , land without end , and he stood still and stared , as if by staring he could make something happen , the first drop of rain already drying on his shoulder .