Example sentences of "one expect [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |
| 2 | This figure , of course , is much higher than one expects for two unrelated spoken languages . |
| 3 | Not the sort of thing one expects of this generation , so all the more pleasing when one comes across it . |
| 4 | ( Edited by Michael Hill , available from ) has everything one expects from such a publication . |
| 5 | He writes that he was determined to exclude ‘ voyages , naval battles , shipboard life , fishing ’ and most of what one expects in nautical yarns . |
| 6 | Another monument to him is in the main square of the city of Cebu in the central Philippines , a canopy with the kind of gaudy murals one expects in this flamboyant tropic city . |