Example sentences of "and expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We needed and expected that money . |
| 2 | There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him . |
| 3 | They also wished and expected charitable effort to grow . |
| 4 | They would press for the international allocation of quotas , as well as mail and air freight , and expected some Commonwealth and European support . |
| 5 | There are so many carp anglers , all fishing with high nutritive value ( HNV ) boiled baits , attached to hair- and bolt-rigs , usually at long range , you can not afford to persist with the old baits and rigs and expect much success . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some parents have very high expectations of cleanliness and expect complete conformity from their child . |
| 9 | ‘ The Church must stand alongside every family like that — not actually put the Royal Family on a pedestal and expect impossible things of them . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We should see what we can do on this matter and expect another report back and then they actually can tell . |
| 12 | Individuals use their radio and television sets in different ways and for different purposes , and expect different things of them . |
| 13 | Such workers are expensive and in short supply , can not be managed by the old " command and control " hierarchies , and expect more scope for creativity and autonomy in their work . |
| 14 | Although it is not a matter for me , I would hope and expect that Parliament would be similarly sensitive to the need to refrain from trespassing upon the province of the courts . |
| 15 | Having done this and expecting immediate reprisals , it then runs for cover . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Comdex/Sucesu is set for the Parque Anhembi and Center Norte in Sao Paulo , Brazil August 23-27 and expects 450 exhibitors and 135,000 attendees . |
| 19 | RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin congratulated president-elect Bill Clinton and expects growing co-operation between the two countries , a Moscow spokesman said . |
| 20 | Although financial director Michael Langley said that the product is approaching the end of its life , he believes ‘ there are a few years in it yet ’ , and expects 1993 sales levels to be maintained at roughly the same as 1992s . |