Example sentences of "[pron] expect [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
| 2 | What is unique about the contribution you expect from each member of your team ? |
| 3 | Michelin road-maps mark genuinely arduous or dangerous stretches of road with a broken red line , and though the roadways themselves quite often turn out to be less awkward than you expect from such warnings , less awkward does not mean altogether easy . |
| 4 | It comes with the incredible value for money you expect from any product that carries the Valor name . |
| 5 | The importer 's answer would undoubtedly be ‘ what do you expect for this kind of money ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What d' you expect with that thing on yer leg ? ’ |
| 7 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |
| 8 | Not the sort of thing one expects of this generation , so all the more pleasing when one comes across it . |
| 9 | Our experience of particular communicative situations teaches us what to expect of that situation , both in a general predictive sense ( e.g. the sort of attitudes which are likely to be expressed , the sort of topics which are likely to be raised ) which gives rise to notions of ‘ appropriacy ’ , and in a limited predictive sense which enables us to interpret linguistic tokens ( e.g. deictic forms like here and now ) in the way we have interpreted them before in similar contexts . |
| 10 | Cezar , Bailey 's Brazilian butler , later recalled that he never knew what to expect in those days . |
| 11 | Canan and her boss know exactly what to expect from each other : ‘ It 's far easier for me to work for another Turk because I can talk about pay rates and things like that more openly . |
| 12 | She had not known what to expect from this side of marriage since there was no literature available to her on the subject and her mother had told her nothing . |