Example sentences of "[pron] expect [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected this place to be in chaos — instead , it 's an oasis of calm . |
| 2 | I expect most women of your age have had lovers ; not so many would admit it . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You expect such tactics with cars nearing the end of their life , not with models just months old . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Anyway , at Stevenage Town Hall we told Ralph that we expected some money for these . |
| 14 | Not only that but we expect that reward to be a fair and just one . |
| 15 | If we work extra hard for our employers we expect some kind of reward in return . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We expect this exhibition to be of particular interest to sports administrators and physiotherapists . |
| 18 | I confirm that there is still time for organisations to respond to our proposals and we expect more representations during the consultation period . |
| 19 | Hence , if the neutral theory is true , we expect those proteins with the most complex and precise functions to evolve slowest . |
| 20 | If one buys a house near a railway line , one expects some disturbance from it , and that is a factor which will no doubt be reflected in the price . |
| 21 | No one expects this rump of a service to be viable . |
| 22 | It would be just like her to expect some recompense for whoever caused the crash . |
| 23 | Dr Neil was not in any way surprised at McAllister 's reaction to his lovemaking ; he expected such modesty from a well brought up young girl , and her arms around his neck , her timid responses , fluttering though they were , told him that she felt for him what he felt for her , and further inflamed his own passion , while warning him to go gently . |
| 24 | Perhaps he expected some protest from Constanza , a declaration , perhaps he hoped for it . |
| 25 | Anyone who is offering a proposal that requires a " yes " effort should be clear as to why he expects that effort to be made . |
| 26 | What with John 's new fitness programme , and the salutary Atlantic air and everything , I myself expected some kind of halfhearted renewal . |