Example sentences of "[pron] be expect [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when I was a boy of fifteen you were expected to half acre of neeps in the day . |
| 2 | All we are expecting at this stage is modest growth in this half year . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the new baronet lived in India and no instructions from him were expected for many months . |
| 4 | In 1976 the figure was set at 20,000 , and it was expected in that year that the figure would not exceed 15,000 in the following and subsequent years . |
| 5 | Dennis eventually went off with her on his own , leaving Nicholson to return alone to their hotel where he acted out some kind of ritual guarding of their rooms , ready to forewarn of an attack he was expecting at any moment from some non-existent Red Indians . |