Example sentences of "[pron] expect this [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I expected this place to be in chaos — instead , it 's an oasis of calm . |
2 | ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | We expect this exhibition to be of particular interest to sports administrators and physiotherapists . |
6 | No one expects this rump of a service to be viable . |