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 . |