Example sentences of "[pron] expect [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reviewers would put ‘ When I first heard the name I expected four guys in Factory haircuts ’ . |
| 2 | At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet . |
| 3 | I expected this place to be in chaos — instead , it 's an oasis of calm . |
| 4 | In other words , Dr Blake , I expect one-hundred-per-cent support from every member of this team . ’ |
| 5 | I expect young people of today would rate the fair rides of the early 1920 's quite tame affairs . |
| 6 | I expect most women of your age have had lovers ; not so many would admit it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I expect underlying inflation to be 3.75 per cent at the end of this year , close to the top of its target range . |
| 8 | I expect next week to be your last chance to register before the shut-off date . |
| 9 | Anyway , why should n't I expect high standards from them ? |
| 10 | Words to be underlined are " bracketed " with ∘S The program produces an output file suitable for a printer which expects such words to be bracketed by ∘Y . |
| 11 | Fifty thousand went to America last year , the stricter regulations there have switched attention to Israel , which expects three quarters of a million in the next five years . |
| 12 | Since their work on cats had conditioned them to expect all parts of the visual cortex to contain orientation selective cells this oversight is , perhaps , understandable . |
| 13 | ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name . |
| 15 | The price of this pragmatism has been to disappoint those who expected radical changes after Independence . |
| 16 | By 1875 politics in the Czech countryside was conducted in more sophisticated terms , and those who expected national salvation from supposed kinsmen of ‘ people 's emperors ’ , ancient or modern , would probably feel a little embarrassed to admit it . |
| 17 | erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem . |
| 18 | You expect such tactics with cars nearing the end of their life , not with models just months old . |
| 19 | If you expect larger numbers of simultaneous QA activities , increase this parameter before running CREFDL . |
| 20 | If you expect heavy use of Offline ( which will be particularly the case if you are not using the Module Version Deletion facility ) , you should probably increase this parameter before running CREFDL . |
| 21 | We provide a top quality catering service for employees using the restaurant , which is also used extensively for VIP functions from other Total locations and from France , who expect high standard of food and service . |
| 22 | it is , is the policy i i is , is would you need to set this up as , as it being a long term I E ho how quickly would you expect that kind of process to work through ? |
| 23 | Obviously cold injury is far more common when would you expect cold injury to be common ? |
| 24 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 25 | Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case . |
| 26 | anyone who expects this book to be a treatise on the history of landscape painting will be disappointed … in spite of copious rewriting , lectures these pages remain . |
| 27 | Anyway , at Stevenage Town Hall we told Ralph that we expected some money for these . |
| 28 | We expect great things of you . ’ |
| 29 | Not only that but we expect that reward to be a fair and just one . |
| 30 | If we work extra hard for our employers we expect some kind of reward in return . |