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

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1 ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 ?
6 If we work extra hard for our employers we expect some kind of reward in return .
7 We expect some account of Sicilian civilization and resources , some description of the fortifications of Syracuse , the temples ( an index of prosperity ) of Akragas , or the revenues derived from the subjugated interior ; something , in fact , like Herodotus book ii , about Egypt , which introduced the invasion by the Persian king Kambyses .
8 No one expects this rump of a service to be viable .
9 He expected limitless serenity of a man half Indian , and indeed Thomas had sustained the expectation for twenty years or more .
10 What with John 's new fitness programme , and the salutary Atlantic air and everything , I myself expected some kind of halfhearted renewal .
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