Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] expect [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hello darling , come on I said to her when she goes back to Tumbletots I shall expect big things of her . |
| 2 | Though you might expect some echoes of a Telecaster or a Les Paul Junior , it actually sounds like neither . |
| 3 | As you 'd expect strong traces of the surging Pixies sound remain , but they 're delivered with a more melodic , playful edge , almost as if splitting up the band has allowed the real Black to emerge . |
| 4 | ‘ It is the last place you would expect this kind of thing to happen . |
| 5 | In the fruit line , you can expect small helpings of peaches and pears . |
| 6 | With such differences in the quantity and quality of mosaics one might expect different levels of stylistic affinity — and combinations of these levels — to be prominent . |
| 7 | Thus , using a plural in a continuation based on the verb + with conditions , where we might expect some sort of strain , does indeed produce a reliably higher number of continuations using both . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly these features are principally confined to the cities of the province , though we might expect some form of provision at those sites where water transport clearly played a part in moving bulky products like building stone or pottery ( p. 43 ) . |
| 9 | Clearly , we could expect some sort of boundary indication , such as a pause , to occur long before the end of this utterance . |
| 10 | If the contention of Pollak and others is correct that the roles of women reduce the public display of deviance , then it is indeed in such ‘ private ’ areas that one would expect female forms of deviance to be located . |
| 11 | Had the two interests been hostile , one would expect some evidence of local friction , but there is none . |
| 12 | Had the two interests been hostile , one would expect some evidence of local friction , but there is none . |
| 13 | If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor . |
| 14 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |