Example sentences of "you expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What dae ye expect ? ’ |
| 2 | Am I what you expected ? |
| 3 | Suppose you 've scheduled your meetings till 12.30 but you get through the morning 's business more quickly than you expected . |
| 4 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 5 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 6 | If he had ( as we all have ) some purely private thoughts and feelings and relationships and experiences , you expected him to keep those to himself , and not embarrass your dinner-party with them , or even bring them into his poems . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean you expected it ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 9 | Do n't stick to this rigidly if the discussion takes a different course to the one you expected . |
| 10 | Failure to do so will mean that your efforts in negotiating long-term security of tenure might be in vain , as you could eventually find the shareholders deciding to bring your contract to a premature end and discover that you are unable to claim compensation for the full period during which you expected to work . |
| 11 | She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive … |
| 12 | She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive … |
| 13 | You will find it is n't nearly so bad as you expected ! |
| 14 | So you expected the King ? ’ |
| 15 | But you expected something better nowadays , especially for a woman in her forties ! |
| 16 | You expected me to hate this one , did n't you ? |
| 17 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 18 | ‘ What you expected ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Not as tall as you expected , ’ I said . |
| 20 | The danger is that they might turn out to be entirely different from how you expected them to be . |
| 21 | But if your exam results were n't what you expected , or if you are not sure what to do next , here is some useful information and advice . |
| 22 | Not getting the exam results you expected is a lot more common than you might think . |
| 23 | But probably more authoritative than you expected . |
| 24 | The barons were politically partisan — mostly Conservative — and you expected your paper to play a vigorous part for or against Mr Churchill in the 1945 general election campaign . |
| 25 | For example , Julia Blackburn identifies one common worry about losing weight : the fear that you wo n't be as sexy or attractive as you expected . |
| 26 | You expected them to stay put . |
| 27 | Yes , thought Berdichev ; but I 'm the last person you expected to see up here today . |
| 28 | After you 'd had this erm punishment ere you expected to go back to your lessons straight away , how long did it hurt , did your hands |
| 29 | A lot worse than you expected ? |
| 30 | The first is the classic bitmap graphic output when you expected a beautifully drawn diagram . |