Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Edited by Michael Hill , available from ) has everything one expects from such a publication . |
| 2 | Depends what she expected out of it . ’ |
| 3 | The psychological contract is a contract of expectations between ‘ them ’ and ‘ me ’ — it links what I expect from them and what they expect from me . |
| 4 | ‘ Mrs Wimbush tells me you expected to find Thorn House still a maternity home . |
| 5 | He wants to come in , but a glance up to the bridge tells me he expects a vast crowd to appear out of nowhere , the minute he strips naked . |
| 6 | The second , however , tells you what to expect from the 2 procedures . |
| 7 | The first reference merely says that ‘ It 's all about man before birth , during life and at death — very deep and it never does what you expect it to ! ’ |
| 8 | Mandeville drew his sword and we followed suit , though God knows what we expected to find . |
| 9 | Our experience of particular communicative situations teaches us what to expect of that situation , both in a general predictive sense ( e.g. the sort of attitudes which are likely to be expressed , the sort of topics which are likely to be raised ) which gives rise to notions of ‘ appropriacy ’ , and in a limited predictive sense which enables us to interpret linguistic tokens ( e.g. deictic forms like here and now ) in the way we have interpreted them before in similar contexts . |