Example sentences of "[verb] expect [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd expected some token reluctance , a bit of chair-shuffling and so on . |
| 2 | On the one hand variceal haemorrhage may be the final episode in a progressively deteriorating clinical disease state ; alternatively , it may be a single potentially life threatening episode in a patient who can otherise expect several further years of good quality life . |
| 3 | ( One might have expected heterosexual young men to be more influenced by what was after all a film of exclusively heterosexual practices . ) |
| 4 | He had expected some final pay-off , a terminal settling of accounts for services rendered . |
| 5 | He had expected some sordid den with a big wardrobe , a lot of shoes and a bed laid for business . |
| 6 | Decade-long plans for the museum 's controversial and costly expansion program are on hold , Ross says , until better economic times , but he does expect any enlarged Whitney to remain on its current Madison Avenue site . |