Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This in itself provides some considerable insight into what students of literature regard as " literary " , at least in terms of the kinds of structures which they expect literary texts to exhibit .
2 Newley occasionally went there with clients from whom he expected rich pickings .
3 John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome .
4 The expectation for next year 's exactly the same as what we expected last year , alright just turned , propped out okay .
5 Thus , for example , if one wanted to study the reactions of women readers of romantic novels to a change in the cover design of a series of books , a group of , say , eight women of varying ages and social classes could be got together either in a house or in a discussion room at a research agency and a trained discussion leader would ask questions of them about their reading interests and , generally speaking , what they expect romantic novels to look like .
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