Example sentences of "[coord] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also wished and expected charitable effort to grow . |
| 2 | I 'd love to be a record success again , but the last LP I made was so bloody personal it was ludicrous : you ca n't write songs about those you love , your children , and expect other people to buy them … |
| 3 | Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health . |
| 4 | Some parents have very high expectations of cleanliness and expect complete conformity from their child . |
| 5 | ‘ The Church must stand alongside every family like that — not actually put the Royal Family on a pedestal and expect impossible things of them . ’ |
| 6 | It is not that on the borders of logic there is a loose form called argument from analogy , but that all thinking starts from a spontaneous discrimination of the like and the unlike , and tendency to group the similar in categories and expect similar consequences from similar conditions . |
| 7 | Individuals use their radio and television sets in different ways and for different purposes , and expect different things of them . |
| 8 | Having done this and expecting immediate reprisals , it then runs for cover . |
| 9 | People are interpreting other people 's language — and expecting other people to interpret their own — in this way all the time , apparently with a surprising degree of accuracy . |
| 10 | People are interpreting other people 's language — and expecting other people to interpret their own — in this way all the time , apparently with a surprising degree of accuracy . |
| 11 | RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin congratulated president-elect Bill Clinton and expects growing co-operation between the two countries , a Moscow spokesman said . |