Example sentences of "[pron] expect [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly 30 millimetres of rain was recorded.Flood warnings had been issued … but no-one expected the river to rise so quickly … surging 10 feet above normal levels . |
| 2 | I expected a fanfare to greet me , or at least for Tony to fall to his knees in admiration . |
| 3 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
| 4 | Because of this background , I expected a book called Feminism for Beginners to explain why all this happened when it did . |
| 5 | I knelt at once to pray and prayed most dutifully till morning when I expected a letter telling me Oreste had been taken . |
| 6 | On his return he puzzled me by behaving exactly as I expected an S.S.O. to behave . |
| 7 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 8 | And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter . |
| 9 | With 33% of Britons likely to get cancer and with cancer being the fear it is , I expected the queue to stretch to Weston-super-Mare and beyond . |
| 10 | As for me , the things I expect a computer to do have advanced somewhat . |
| 11 | Suppose that I expect a colleague to give me a lift home this evening , but that her car has a flat battery ; this wo n't stop us , however , because a friend 's car is parked conveniently near with some jump leads which we can use to get her car to start . |
| 12 | I expect the draper made an extra ⅛ penny on each transaction , not a fortune but could lead to one in a lifetime of trading . |
| 13 | In cases of long standing chronic disease I expect the patient to start feeling better within a day or two and certainly would n't continue with a remedy if there was no improvement after a week . |
| 14 | As the economy recovers and the unfavourable short-term effects of the fall in the exchange rate feed through , I expect the deficit to widen this year to £17.5 billion . ’ |
| 15 | I expect the cab weighs a ton , but the whole kit is still very portable , size-wise . |
| 16 | One client even received a letter from Harvard Securities saying of Towerbell : " I expect the price to rise to higher levels and will advise further " . |
| 17 | I expect the crew had tiptoed down very gently from the bunk above while he slept . |
| 18 | I expect the team to look like this : - |
| 19 | ‘ Nevertheless , conditions in certain markets of importance to Volex give grounds for optimism and I expect the Group to make further progress in the current year . ’ |
| 20 | I expect the oven 's turned off . |
| 21 | I expect the staff watch when they 're bored . |
| 22 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 23 | Ask what do I expect the nurses to do at the end of the workshop . |
| 24 | How far can I expect the audience to share the desired meaning of the work ? |
| 25 | The traffic going to Mr McGiffert 's shopping complex did not wreak havoc on the Ringdufferin Road , nor would I expect the traffic going to the golf course to do so . |
| 26 | NOBODY EXPECTED The Farm to make anything other than a bad album . |
| 27 | After her electrifying performance as an obsessive fan who helps Robert De Niro kidnap a talk show host in Martin Scorsese 's 1982 King Of Comedy , she has admitted she expected the phone to ring . |
| 28 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |
| 29 | As she expected the children had vanished perhaps into the trees . |
| 30 | But fans who expected the maestro to run through all of his favourites were disappointed . |