Example sentences of "[pers pn] expected [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Finn represented the fusion of Scandinavia and Hungary ( to which country they were first cousins ) so no doubt she expected too much of Erkki . |
| 2 | Bertha Cohen snorted as if to convey that she expected as little from grandchildren as from children . |
| 3 | ‘ You expected too much of me , then ! |
| 4 | Gross margin was as we expected broadly level with the second half of last year . |
| 5 | In last week 's edition of The Sunday Telegraph , Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote : ’ It was a woman speaking from inside Dubrovnik against a background of shellfire who said : We expected so much from Europe and got so little . ' |
| 6 | So , while in 1814 the prime criticism of the idea was that it expected too much of human nature , too much of the people who were to live in the communities and of those who were to put them there , while then it was in short a social criticism , by 1832 the idea had become an economic nonsense . |