Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any moment I expected one of the masters , placed at strategic intervals to stop a guy taking short cuts or lighting up a Havana cigar , to leap out from a place of concealment , brandishing The Times and bellowing , ‘ Come on , Britton ! |
| 2 | I expected more of you but perhaps you deserve a second chance . ’ |
| 3 | I expect one of the old ladies was up there and dropped a fag end or something , and just forgot it . |
| 4 | , I expect one of those will be alright , were they stripy ones we saw the other day ? |
| 5 | From the moment I could understand the human voice 1 — and I expect most of my generation — was told to be ‘ seen and not heard ’ … ‘ consider others before yourself ’ … ‘ never complain' and if you were a boy child , then you were exhorted to be a man , to show no emotion , and not to be a sissy . |
| 6 | I expect most of my wheat will be destroyed in this rain . ’ |
| 7 | First of all , I expect most of you have heard that the proposed holiday to Torbay has had to be cancelled cos we did n't have enough support . |
| 8 | I c I , I tell this story cos I think it illustrates it very much , I expect most of you have er if you have n't been you 've heard of Dale in Derbyshire , and it 's this river with a , a lovely walk either side of the river , you walk along the side and then you come to the point where there 's a bend in the river and there 's these gorgeous great enormous stepping stones . |
| 9 | I expect some of us will be moving off soon , going to the places where summer work 's to be found . |
| 10 | I expect some of those boys in the village have probably been shooting vermin . |
| 11 | His mother 's fluent , though inaccurate , English and confident manner may have led them to expect more of him . |
| 12 | Assuming the model is similar to the form of Bristol , in which direction do you expect most of the low density , richer housing to be ? |
| 13 | For various reasons , we expected little of the sitting hen . |
| 14 | We should also remember that we expect many of the elderly to function under circumstances of stress which would strain people of any age : bereavement , repeated as contemporaries gradually die , worry about money , fear of increasing infirmity , isolation and death . |
| 15 | And we expect hundreds of people queueing today in person . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We expect thousands of people will turn up for this rave , which has been organised and advertised without the school 's knowledge . |
| 17 | Most auction companies appear to be waiting until the transfer legislation is in place before they too offer sheep quota — and they expect most of 1993 trading to concentrate on leasing . |
| 18 | He also said he expected some of the banned garages and testers to appeal against the rulings , and meanwhile they were allowed to continue MOT testing . |
| 19 | After the breakdown of talks in London he said he expected most of the cuts to fall on Merseyside 's Halewood plant . |
| 20 | He said he expected most of the cuts to fall on Merseyside 's Halewood plant . |