Example sentences of "[verb] expect [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have come to expect super classes on this course , and we were not disappointed ! |
| 2 | ‘ While in times past a royal wife would be expected simply to put up with a situation no matter how desperate , the Princess of Wales belongs to a generation that has come to expect greater things from life and certainly from relationships , ’ she wrote . |
| 3 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 4 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
| 5 | We had expected 25 years at the most . |
| 6 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |