Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 2 | The singer , best known for the classic Great Balls Of Fire , was expected two days ago but was said to be furious at taking second billing in the Giants of Rock 'n' Roll concerts . |
| 3 | ‘ We were just saying , ’ murmured Bromley , ‘ that we did n't expect any foreigners here . ’ |
| 4 | It is ill-advised to expect high-flying academics alone to provide the necessary raw material in our communications industry . |
| 5 | Our own experiments with people 's ability to juggle credit-cost options give no reason to expect different results here . |
| 6 | Intergraph Corp last week told Wall Street to expect first-quarter losses somewhere between $6.5m and $7.5m on revenues of $280m-$285m , below expectations . |
| 7 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
| 8 | Not expecting any deaths yet . |