Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] expect [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean , I dare say , that , having given you supper , I might expect payment in kind . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't want to come here too often , but I 'll expect messages from you in the usual way . |
| 3 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I will bring the shoes I am making for you now , the ones with the amethysts as decoration and I will expect payment for the work I 've done , mind . |
| 5 | ‘ If you will make such a mystery man of yourself , ’ Robbie retorted , ‘ you must expect people to be curious . ’ |
| 6 | You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations . |
| 7 | I , I , well I am afraid that the people who have been audited are exactly the people , I mean you would expect Ian and Tanya certainly to be good , you 'd expect Philip to be good would n't you and Susannah , and Lyn , perhaps less so . |
| 8 | ‘ And it fits : you 'd expect Cyril to be puking his heart out when they got home . |
| 9 | You move into the south which is the area where landlord exploitation might have been at its most intense , where you would expect antagonisms to be greatest , where one would expect that peasants would be actually demanding land reform and , and indeed if you , you go back to , to the you 've clearly got that almost spontaneous underlying radicalism because of the , the intense landlord exploitation . |
| 10 | Erm and you would expect Stan to with his with him facing goal to have a go . |
| 11 | Japanese firms have enjoyed faster growth than American ones , so , on this basis , you would expect dividends to be lower . |
| 12 | A new industry minister , Victor Joy Wa , took a third tack , announcing to startled industrialists that he will do away with all privileges for all manufacturers save exporters , who can expect reimbursement of taxes that ‘ should not be exported ’ . |
| 13 | You can expect ructions at home if you have been taking a partner for granted recently . |
| 14 | Three more Death Box ams are turning pro , so you can expect models with these names on them coming out in May : Jocke Olsen , Nordien Quatbi , and Bruno Rouland . |
| 15 | You can expect delays on the A thirty four between Botley and Hinksey Hill , where there are long term roadworks affecting southbound traffic . |
| 16 | Suppose we wish to put a straight line unc through the following set of experimental points : unc Suppose further that , in view of the experimental method , we may expect errors in f to be proportional to t . |
| 17 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 18 | Just as we could , perhaps , calculate the weight of the largest insect which could walk on a given liquid , so we can use these concepts to calculate how strong we ought to expect materials to be . |
| 19 | If Bartlett 's ( 1932 ) original view is correct we ought to expect changes in the pattern of recall of events . |
| 20 | Given that the net flow of support is normally from older to younger generations , we should expect support in this direction to be more extensive . |
| 21 | All we can say is that ceteris paribus we should expect consequences of these kinds and then look at specific developments which would seem to illustrate the possibilities . |
| 22 | The correspondence principle states that we should expect wages to be rising more rapidly the larger is X i . |
| 23 | So we should expect readers of different papers to be influenced in different directions depending upon the content of their own particular papers . |
| 24 | If some unit larger than the grapheme is used , such as a ( vowel + consonant ) unit , one might expect gead to be pronounced to rhyme with bread , because the most common pronunciation for — ead is the one used for bread . |
| 25 | This seems unlikely , however , because one might expect females to be just as much in need of protection as males . |
| 26 | The estimate for the two albums is £150,000–200,000 , and one might expect interest to be shown by an Italian State collection such as the Museo degli Argenti in Florence . |
| 27 | Part of the experiment was to hold a couple of quizzes at the time of year when we might expect problems with speakers and audience having to travel in bad weather . |
| 28 | We might expect students of dance or music to engage in practical activities , but their theoretical studies are , by and large , directly related to those activities . |
| 29 | Under a Labour government we might expect television to be somewhat more favourable to the Labour Party . |
| 30 | The general condition was extremely dangerous and one could expect difficulty in trying to gain any access as the stairway was so derelict . |