Example sentences of "[verb] to expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come to expect surprises from Robertson . |
| 2 | Mrs Pember Reeves noted that the Lambeth housewives she visited ‘ seemed to expect judgement to be passed on the absent man according to the amount he allowed them . ’ |
| 3 | Earl Spencer 's friend told to expect jail for £1.8m swindle |
| 4 | People communicate mainly verbally , and tend to expect horses to understand not only precise commands like ‘ whoa ! ’ and ‘ trot ! ’ , but also words with a more abstract meaning like ‘ steady ! ’ and ‘ easy ! ’ . |
| 5 | Doctors , matrons and sisters in hospitals tend to practise an autocratic style ; managers/directors who own their company also tend to expect things to be done their way ; |
| 6 | We tend to expect pupils to find words in dictionaries , because we assume it is a skill which is simply acquired . |
| 7 | However , children who are doing badly tend to expect failure and criticism , since it may have little effect on them except to confirm their worst beliefs about themselves and reduce their efforts . |
| 8 | This was unfortunate as Neil tends to expect laughs as the more usual response to his lines . |
| 9 | During a run in a Neil Simon play , I struggled with soft lenses but they made me cry constantly — which was unfortunate , as Neil tends to expect laughs . |
| 10 | Meantime according to the new ClieNT Server News , Microsoft 's 24 OEM hardware suppliers have been told to expect client and server Windows NT products from June 15 , though other insiders say the server software may not be around until later in July . |
| 11 | Microsoft 's 24 OEM hardware suppliers have been told to expect client and server Windows NT products from June 15th , though other insiders say the server software may not be around until later in July . |
| 12 | In everyday affairs we formulate a generalization when we find ourselves beginning to expect consequences as before to follow when conditions are as before . |
| 13 | And as you say , all we can do is wait , and continue to expect Doctor Morris to turn up in his own good time . |
| 14 | So when the actual rate of inflation rises to 4 per cent in Fig. 6.4 , people continue to expect zero inflation for a while and only in the long-run do they revise their expectations upwards towards 4 per cent . |
| 15 | However , many domestic horses have been conditioned to expect food from people . |
| 16 | Foreign scholars as well as foreign diplomats found to their surprise that where they had been led to expect barbarity , they found civilization and love of learning ; for Giovanni Ferreri , who settled in the abbey of Kinloss , close to the university of Aberdeen , Girolamo Aleandro , teacher of Greek and Hebrew at Paris , and Girolamo Cardano , physician of Milan , Scottish scholars were welcome members of the academic community of Europe . |
| 17 | Dressed in a freshly laundered dhoti , a clean white turban wrapped neatly around his head and a rough khadi coat buttoned up to the collar , he walks with the gait of a man accustomed to expect deference . |
| 18 | After all , why should the board cease to expect proof of the impact of their media spending once the recession is over ? |
| 19 | The parent will tend to recalibrate their response , as , as , as you have said , parents will come to expect children to make a lot of fuss about nothing , and consequently wo n't pay so much attention to a child 's distress as they would to an adult 's , because we regard it as natural , children to cry or make a fuss about the treatment we contribute , but the reason for that could be that we , we have as it were , readjusted our sensitivity to distress and we , we really have a double standard . |
| 20 | A buyer may come to expect concessions from a seller in return for purchasing . |
| 21 | The company said to expect Sparcstation 10 Model 52s and 54s in the late spring , early summer . |
| 22 | ( In last week 's Unigram issue we said to expect price reductions of around 40% . |
| 23 | He did not realise that they had learnt to expect food from him , and were simply shouting : ‘ I want my dinner ! ’ |
| 24 | Memories were long in Scotland , and a gentleman whose forefathers had fought and died with the Marquis of Montrose in the wars against the Covenanter Government in the previous century could still feel entitled to expect assistance from the current chief of that family , and more importantly there were others in the county who thought likewise . |