Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] 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 | 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 . |
7 | 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 ) . |
8 | Clearly , we could expect some sort of boundary indication , such as a pause , to occur long before the end of this utterance . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |