Example sentences of "expect some [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had expected some final pay-off , a terminal settling of accounts for services rendered . |
| 2 | He had expected some sordid den with a big wardrobe , a lot of shoes and a bed laid for business . |
| 3 | I 'd expected some token reluctance , a bit of chair-shuffling and so on . |
| 4 | Football this afternoon Scarborough are playing Bury at the McCain Stadium so you can expect some extra traffic in Scarborough town centre with that football . |
| 5 | Cloud amounts will vary but we can expect some warm sunshine . |
| 6 | Mirco is Czech and Annette is half-French so you can expect some creative cuisine here . |
| 7 | Does he agree that to stimulate demand within the United Kingdom home market , where problems exist on the retail side , the industry is entitled to expect some special attention from the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the next Budget , which could include a reduction in or the total elimination of the appalling 10 per cent . |
| 8 | So far as adult education is concerned it would seem reasonable to expect some significant response to the women 's movement given the close association between adult education and popular political movements in the formative years , and also because women constitute the majority of students , in current adult education provision . |
| 9 | I , I was expecting some forty year old white , well dressed , you know Conservative |
| 10 | The results of the Concorde trial came as ‘ a considerable shock ’ , he says , particularly to those who had been expecting some positive outcome , however small . |
| 11 | ‘ Are you expecting some important letter , Rose ? ’ her mother inquired anxiously . |
| 12 | Not until the appearance in United Nations World , dated May 1951 , of an article by Professor Hans Thirring , entitled ‘ Is Peron 's A-bomb a swindle ? ’ , was Richter spurred to put pen to paper But his rejoinder , ‘ Argentina has no atom bomb ’ in the July issue of that journal , was a disappointment to those expecting some scientific enlightenment . |