Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said ‘ Junk Shop ’ outside but I hardly expected the sign to be this literal . |
| 2 | I also expect the companies selling them to finally give up and start calling them computers — which , of course , is what they are . |
| 3 | But I never expected the reaction it got coming from me . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | The scene was so vivid and lifelike you almost expected the bear to move or the tree to bend . |
| 8 | She fully expected the basement door to be bolted . |
| 9 | ‘ You never expected the news of your engagement to Mr Massingham to stay a secret for long , did you ? ’ |
| 10 | But would you seriously expect the Government to subsidise that ? . |
| 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 | It 's much better , I feel , from the public 's point of view , for us simply to say ‘ Yes , I think although it will be cloudy until the latter end of the morning that we confidently expect the sun to break through , and then when it 's through it 'll stay with us through the afternoon . |
| 13 | We also expect the expert to inform us what is in our best interests , for how can we know this when the technical grounds for such judgements are , by definition , outside our competence . |
| 14 | We therefore expect the Tunguska fireball to have reached a height above its airburst altitude appropriate to a nuclear surface burst . |
| 15 | In 1978 they already expected the measures , not announced until 1981 , to restrict quantities of money held by individuals . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yet they never expected the Duke of Edinburgh to accompany the Queen everywhere , or Mark Phillips to be seen with Princess Anne . |
| 19 | My fears were shared by youthful friends and even adult relatives at times seemed to ‘ chivvy ’ us along as if they too expected the ghost train to rush by . |
| 20 | They therefore expect the companies they work for to support the providers of those services , in some way , and they want to play their part too , in delivering those services , and I have quite a lot to say about that , later on . |
| 21 | When a firm buys a new machine , it presumably expects the yield of the investment to exceed its cost . |
| 22 | Like many other Nazareans , he still expects the dissolution of creation . |
| 23 | He confidently expects the day to yield a crushing English victory , a Triple Crown , a Grand Slam and absolutely no bloody problem . |
| 24 | He unselfconsciously expects the reader to be as interested as he is in Jean de Meung or Alanus . |
| 25 | Does not he equally expect the rule of law to be observed on both sides of the Irish border ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He too expects the decision to be made in the final 48 hours . |