Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] expect [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said ‘ Junk Shop ’ outside but I hardly expected the sign to be this literal . |
| 2 | When he came over to me I fully expected a slap on my kisser , I being the known ring-leader . |
| 3 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 4 | I never expected the job to be perfect but I was surprised by the nature of the problem . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew I had landed my 100th winner , ’ Charlie told me ‘ but I never expected the sort of reaction I received from the crowd . |
| 6 | The police came within half an hour and the officer was sympathetic although he advised me not to expect the thieves to be caught . |
| 7 | How could she possibly expect a girl of Cissie 's years to understand how a woman could love so deeply that there seemed no shame in it at all ? |
| 8 | Continuing with the Lois Lane example , suppose that she still expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures ( ignoring the effects of any general price movements on their relative prices ) , and she has no views about general price movements . |
| 9 | ‘ You never expected the news of your engagement to Mr Massingham to stay a secret for long , did you ? ’ |
| 10 | But there are still many people shocked by the events of the past few days , who never expected the Army to be prepared to launch rocket and artillery attacks on civilian targets . |
| 11 | In speech , lacking these devices , we naturally expect the prosody to be called into play — but we must beware that we do not exaggerate its role . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , one naturally expects a cattery to be more austere , ’ said Mark . |
| 13 | We always expected an appeal to An Bord Pleanala and we are well prepared for it ’ . |
| 14 | Having systematically run down and denigrated public services since 1979 , they now expect the country to be grateful for being offered lower standards of service than we used to enjoy , and ones that are derisory in the light of what is enjoyed in many other European countries . |
| 15 | They imagine that they have believed in God because faith is rational — which it is — but they then expect every aspect of faith to be equally open to rational investigation — which it is n't . |
| 16 | But they were separated from al-Dhouri and Jassim by a line of soldiers clutching their Kalashnikovs , as if they fully expected the platform to be stormed by the pre-pubescent performers . |
| 17 | Yet they never expected the Duke of Edinburgh to accompany the Queen everywhere , or Mark Phillips to be seen with Princess Anne . |
| 18 | When a firm buys a new machine , it presumably expects the yield of the investment to exceed its cost . |
| 19 | Like many other Nazareans , he still expects the dissolution of creation . |
| 20 | He clearly expected a reply in the negative . |
| 21 | He unselfconsciously expects the reader to be as interested as he is in Jean de Meung or Alanus . |
| 22 | Does not he equally expect the rule of law to be observed on both sides of the Irish border ? |
| 23 | Well aware that most workers were indifferent to foreign affairs , he fully expected the majority of them to be swept into fratricide by patriotic propaganda if war actually came . |
| 24 | He too expects the decision to be made in the final 48 hours . |