Example sentences of "expect [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Brian and Deborah Curley had expected champagne and flowers when they arrived at the four star hotel on the island of Tenerife after a perfect wedding .
2 We expect products that sell to go on selling .
3 Few expect change while Erich Honecker remains leader .
4 Naturally , in football management you expect ridicule and criticism , and you must always rise above it , especially if it is constructive , but this poor excuse for a handkerchief seems obsessed not with football but with my receding hairline , e.g. the ‘ Spot The Baldy ’ competition on page two , and with making juvenile remarks about my beer gut .
5 But we 've got to live by their rules and not expect privileges because we happen to be women . ’
6 ‘ But I expect Thorkel and Hlodver and Odalric to stay where they are and look after my interests until I tell them otherwise . ’
7 Expect laughter and tears all the way through this spicy tale of highbrow Alice Potter divorced from an infamous husband , and now pursued by the Press gang .
8 With their conveniences and their pleasant facades , the two cottages justify her affirmation , which exactly echoes Loudon 's own conviction , that ‘ Life in cottages might be happier than ours , if they were real houses fit for human beings from whom we expect duties and affections . ’
9 Just wanted to clarify that little point , so you know the organs that make up the circulatory system , you know how to check it , you know the one slight difference than what you normally expect veins and arteries to be doing okay ?
10 She had expected passion and had been prepared to bluff that away , but this was different .
11 In other words , expect whispers that he is ripe for voluntary retirement in an autumn reshuffle .
12 Ianthe was also dismayed , for she had expected Sophia or some other female member of St Basil 's congregation to be on the doorstep .
13 They still want value for their money — but they also expect quality and style .
14 I expect Britain and the European Economic Community to be standing ready to support the elections and the democratic process in El Salvador .
15 Since outcome is determined partly during pregnancy , it is logical to expect pregnant women to ask more questions , expect answers and make informed decisions related to their lifestyle .
16 Stephen would have liked further education , though he had n't expected Oxford or Cambridge or even , say , Nottingham .
17 We expect reality but mime is not bound by such limitations .
18 But , at a state banquet later that evening , Gorbachev stressed that " we expect reciprocity and count on America 's continued support and understanding " .
19 Normal language states are not uniform , and in vernacular ( non-standardized ) states we expect alternations and other kinds of variation to exist .
20 Still , I expect Grandstand and Question Time are even now fighting it out over who gets me first .
21 Expect Mark and Jason Lee to adorn your screens right about now .
22 They just expect software and networking capabilities added in .
23 But whoever these men had been , they had not expected stone and stone had won the day against the metal of their more ferocious weaponry .
24 And how can gay priests reasonably expect acceptance when celibacy is demanded of heterosexuals ?
25 ‘ They expected telecommunications and roads to be modernized within two or three years , but it will take many , many , years . ’
26 You may expect direction and advice which will not be forthcoming .
27 I , I , well I am afraid that the people who have been audited are exactly the people , I mean you would expect Ian and Tanya certainly to be good , you 'd expect Philip to be good would n't you and Susannah , and Lyn , perhaps less so .
28 WHEN we cast our votes at election time , we do n't expect candidates to be paragons of virtue but we do expect honesty and integrity — traits completely lacking in this discredited Government .
29 You ca n't expect Mummy and me to do all the talking about you know what .
30 Suffice it to say here that , during enculturation , individuals acquire , first , an image of themselves as helpless and dependent in a hostile and malevolent world that it is largely beyond their ability to control and , second , a set of habits and expectations that lead them to seek and expect aid and comfort from others in times of distress .
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