Example sentences of "what [pron] [be] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | exactly what I 's expect and you may find they actually sort of are on a down-slope still . |
| 2 | I can not remember what I was expecting exactly , but I found this slightly disappointing . |
| 3 | Our gentle driving had resulted in 15.6mpg — about what I was expecting — but also a maximum touring range of 300 miles , which I can imagine some owners quibbling with . |
| 4 | I 'm not over familiar with the works of Ira , Chuck and Sid but Elliott 's sounds are pretty much what I was expecting . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , if that 's Guido Falcone , he 's definitely not what I was expecting . ’ |
| 6 | Was that what she was expecting ? |
| 7 | Then there is the whole business of knowing what you are expected to note down and what is intended as a joke , a recycling , or a side issue . |
| 8 | when you know more about what you 're expecting to be told it 's easier to remember it . |
| 9 | Because that 's what you 're expecting them to do . |
| 10 | Problem 4 You may , even at first reading , have an uneasy feeling that the proof of ( b ) was not quite what you were expecting and that a more direct proof should be available . |
| 11 | Although bureau primarily exist to simply output your files direct to bromide or film most of them will make sure that the output is what you were expecting before they send it back . |
| 12 | Was n't what you were expecting was it ? |
| 13 | So so that 's thr that 's almost three times what you were expecting ? |
| 14 | ‘ I was n't in Belfast for the second leg but from what I saw on television they gave Tbilisi a lot of problems and that 's what we are expecting next week . |
| 15 | ‘ And here we are at the same time of year — well , they tell us it 's the same time of year , ’ he said , sarcastically , ‘ — and what we 're expected to eat are knobbly things actually grown in dirt ! |
| 16 | Let's just look at what we 're expected to do . |
| 17 | Mr Bert Havill , an electrician and the club 's international chairman who had arranged the visit through the Russian embassy in London , said : ‘ Quite frankly , they were just not what we were expecting . |
| 18 | It did not occur to us that ‘ working in their usual way ’ might prove to be so different from what we were expecting that work on the project would be brought virtually to a standstill . |
| 19 | What we were expecting and erm he wanted to know , to a large extent , how we felt about all the erm things that are going on in the parish . |
| 20 | Erm , they have had internal discussion and I believe they are not going to do anything until they get a prompt from Jenny , 'cos that 's what they 're expecting . |
| 21 | Councillors should know beforehand what they are expected to discuss and a councillor may absent himself if nothing really concerns him on the agenda . |
| 22 | But unlike ordinary prisons , members of most societies conform freely and willingly — they actually want to do what they are expected to do . |
| 23 | — Do learners know what they are expected to do ? |
| 24 | ‘ The £28 million will not even look at the gap between the obligations of the local authorities and what they are expected to do , ’ he said . |
| 25 | We are grateful to all our contributors for their articles and for their forbearance when the Editor has not done with them what they were expecting ! |
| 26 | Police believe they did n't get anything near what they were expecting . |
| 27 | Police believe they didn ’ t get anything near what they were expecting . |
| 28 | Knowledge of what they were expected to do on discharge was equally scanty and the elderly people did not seem to connect the pattern of drug-taking in hospital with a possible continuation once they were home . |
| 29 | As long as they were doing what they were expected to do you see . |
| 30 | According to Godfrey Hodgson : ‘ Never has so powerful a leader been so impotent to do what he wants to do , what he is pledged to do , what he is expected to do , and what he knows he must do ’ . |