Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said ‘ Junk Shop ’ outside but I hardly expected the sign to be this literal . |
| 2 | I also expect the companies selling them to finally give up and start calling them computers — which , of course , is what they are . |
| 3 | When he came over to me I fully expected a slap on my kisser , I being the known ring-leader . |
| 4 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 5 | But I never expected the reaction it got coming from me . |
| 6 | I never expected the job to be perfect but I was surprised by the nature of the problem . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew I had landed my 100th winner , ’ Charlie told me ‘ but I never expected the sort of reaction I received from the crowd . |
| 8 | After a while he returned , came over to me and , though I half expected a smack , said , ‘ Maintenant , il y a un nouvel relation entre nous . |
| 9 | He can usually take for granted initial student motivation , educational level and intelligence ; he is part of a system which already expects the student to spend a considerable proportion of his time in private study , and which usually provides at least minimal facilities for this to take place . |
| 10 | Czechoslovakia , a democratic state with a mass socialist and trade-union movement , had been handed to the Nazis by the National government , which now expected the labour movement to support a war for Poland , a society much less attractive to democrats let alone socialists . |
| 11 | How could she possibly expect a girl of Cissie 's years to understand how a woman could love so deeply that there seemed no shame in it at all ? |
| 12 | Mrs Burke 's daughter , Mrs Doreen Leverton , 63 , said : ‘ You always expect a parent to die sometime but not in this way . |
| 13 | Continuing with the Lois Lane example , suppose that she still expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures ( ignoring the effects of any general price movements on their relative prices ) , and she has no views about general price movements . |
| 14 | The scene was so vivid and lifelike you almost expected the bear to move or the tree to bend . |
| 15 | She fully expected the basement door to be bolted . |
| 16 | ‘ You never expected the news of your engagement to Mr Massingham to stay a secret for long , did you ? ’ |
| 17 | But would you seriously expect the Government to subsidise that ? . |
| 18 | But there are still many people shocked by the events of the past few days , who never expected the Army to be prepared to launch rocket and artillery attacks on civilian targets . |
| 19 | In speech , lacking these devices , we naturally expect the prosody to be called into play — but we must beware that we do not exaggerate its role . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , one naturally expects a cattery to be more austere , ’ said Mark . |
| 21 | We usually expect a marriage to last — yet things can change ! |
| 22 | We always expected an appeal to An Bord Pleanala and we are well prepared for it ’ . |
| 23 | It 's much better , I feel , from the public 's point of view , for us simply to say ‘ Yes , I think although it will be cloudy until the latter end of the morning that we confidently expect the sun to break through , and then when it 's through it 'll stay with us through the afternoon . |
| 24 | We also expect the expert to inform us what is in our best interests , for how can we know this when the technical grounds for such judgements are , by definition , outside our competence . |
| 25 | We then expect a Pre-Inquiry meeting will be held by the Secretary of State sometime in September and that a Local Public Inquiry will take place either before or just after Christmas . |
| 26 | One almost expects a mangle , or a posset stick . ’ |
| 27 | Some of the craters look so fresh that one almost expects the rocks still to be warm . |
| 28 | We therefore expect the Tunguska fireball to have reached a height above its airburst altitude appropriate to a nuclear surface burst . |
| 29 | In 1978 they already expected the measures , not announced until 1981 , to restrict quantities of money held by individuals . |
| 30 | Having systematically run down and denigrated public services since 1979 , they now expect the country to be grateful for being offered lower standards of service than we used to enjoy , and ones that are derisory in the light of what is enjoyed in many other European countries . |