Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
| 2 | ‘ I expected to curry quite a lot of disfavour from almost everybody , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Most of the things I expected to value in life have come to me through death . ’ |
| 4 | The ‘ things I expected to value ’ . |
| 5 | These are the things I expect in marriage |
| 6 | Christine obviously thought she was going to get much less than she expected from Graham Mills ' will . |
| 7 | From the pastoral comforts of the Plateau de Bénou , the road twists abruptly down past the villages of Bilhères and of Bielle , another valley ‘ capital ’ this , with some fine fifteenth-and sixteenth-century house fronts , but particularly commendable as a slated roofs cape seen from higher up the road — this is Béarn , and grey slates arc what you expect on roofs , no longer Basque tiles . |
| 8 | The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability . |
| 9 | You expect in matches that you get a few breaks going your way and some against you but this was hard to take . ’ |
| 10 | In my experience , I find that you get what you expect in life , and if you trusted people more , you would probably get more trustworthy staff . ’ |
| 11 | Well , what do you expect for 50p — Ghostbusters ? |
| 12 | Nothing spectacular but what do you expect from beginners ? ! ! ! |
| 13 | No , it 's the personnel statement is well what do you expect from queens who ca n't talk proper |
| 14 | What has happened to the statements that we expected on revenue support grant ? |
| 15 | Erm so erm maybe because of the continuity between some forms of abusive sexual practice and erm what we expect of kids , what we train kids to do anyway um it means that abuse is easier to get away with . |
| 16 | ‘ The service exceeds by a wide margin the standards we expect from UK broadcasters and I see no reason why material of this sort should be available in the UK simply because it is broadcast from overseas . ’ |
| 17 | We get what we expect from life , according to our desires , thoughts , beliefs , attitudes , choices and decisions . |
| 18 | Not everyone reacts to the death of someone close by bursting into tears and behaving in the kind of way that we expect from people experiencing grief . |
| 19 | Matches at neutral venues , on the other hand , often have charged atmospheres as the contesting clubs bring along five or six thousand supporters and create the sort of scene we expect from cup semi-finals . |
| 20 | Alas , solitude is not very likely , there is so little of it in life , so what can we expect after death ! |
| 21 | What do we expect from life ? |
| 22 | Her brother he had met before and the two men talked about the year 's haysaving and the price they expected for sheep and wool and cattle . |
| 23 | Although the principal activity of many of the nobles in Edward III 's reign was war , their fundamental concern was always their inheritance , the lands and rights which formed the basis of their wealth and power and which they expected to hand on to their heirs . |
| 24 | But Jim says his firm had to settle for less than they expected over work on the Minister 's home in Putney , south-west London . |
| 25 | Two further advantages are that objectives provide the student with a clear idea of what is expected of her and that teachers are forced to think clearly about what they expect of students . |
| 26 | In school , teachers show what they expect of children in terms of work and behaviour , they provide models for children by their own conduct and they feed back to children what they judge to be acceptable performance . |
| 27 | Our development of complex beer flavour concentrates ensures that wherever Guinness stout is brewed in the world , consumers will enjoy the consistent taste they expect from Guinness . |
| 28 | It is what they expect from Robyn Penrose , and even the rugby-playing boys in the back row would be mildly disappointed if she did n't produce this kind of observation from time to time . |
| 29 | General practitioner fundholders already use contracts to spell out what they expect from hospital services . |
| 30 | This he expected from Turnour 's voice , manner and the way he looked as he was sitting . |