Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had long since stopped expecting the world to deal kindly with them : they had used up their good fortune by remaining alive when the Plague came . |
| 2 | I agree , she would not normally have expected the remainder to fall in and be useful to her , but of course if she had had children , it would have been valuable to them . ’ |
| 3 | Who would ever have expected the pillar of the house to shake ? |
| 4 | One would also have expected the density fluctuations in such a model to have led to the formation of many more primordial black holes than the upper limit that has been set by observations of the gamma ray background . |
| 5 | People really began to expect the war to end in August , or at the latest in September . |
| 6 | That put Swansea 8–6 in front at half-time , but even then the Aussies could n't have expected the storm that awaited them in the second half . |