Example sentences of "expect [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not expect to see much of Liz and Alix , who had married and made their own lives after another pattern . |
| 2 | Saddam Hussein 's actions are a response to Third World powerlessness — and one we should expect to see more of . |
| 3 | True , Leeds do n't expect to score 10 against Stuttgart , their first round European opponents this season — but Collins believes Wilkinson can plot the downfall of the Germans . |
| 4 | The sums are complicated by another factor : when a bond goes into default , an investor can expect to recover some of its value when assets are sold off . |
| 5 | This in effect meant the delivery of only a handful of other lectures : circumstances ensured that no teacher at the College could expect to become knowledgeable on the diseases of farm animals , which practically never came into the College infirmary for attention . |
| 6 | Clearly , because of the elusive nature of neutrinos we can not expect to capture all of them . |