Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] expect [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dominant social attitudes play a large part in suggesting to older people that ‘ disengagement ’ is what is expected of them — and ultimately it becomes what they themselves expect from old age . |
| 2 | He writes that he was determined to exclude ‘ voyages , naval battles , shipboard life , fishing ’ and most of what one expects in nautical yarns . |
| 3 | But even if political authorities were clear about what they expected from public enterprises , political control would remain problematic . |
| 4 | Was that not what he expected from Asian shopkeepers , and did that justify breaking their bones ? |
| 5 | Our experience of particular communicative situations teaches us what to expect of that situation , both in a general predictive sense ( e.g. the sort of attitudes which are likely to be expressed , the sort of topics which are likely to be raised ) which gives rise to notions of ‘ appropriacy ’ , and in a limited predictive sense which enables us to interpret linguistic tokens ( e.g. deictic forms like here and now ) in the way we have interpreted them before in similar contexts . |