Example sentences of "[adv] expect [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They appeared the next Friday night at the Smiths ' poolside looking fashionably anonymous and sinister like Seb 's crowd , and jumped in eagerly , Hoomey obviously expecting his new look to do wonders for his crawl . |
| 2 | Defeat was no disaster however to Boutin who still expects his fallen hero to rise again . |
| 3 | A noble individual , such as Nithard himself , could reasonably expect his royal lord to look after his interests and reward faithful service with beneficia ( literally " good deeds " ) , meaning grants of lands or of honores , " offices " which carried lands with them : hence the linguistic distinction between honor and beneficium became blurred . |
| 4 | And it could be the ‘ Baby Blues ’ for Britain at Augusta with twice winner Nick Faldo 's wife Gill also expecting their third arrival in late March or early April . |
| 5 | Although Joffre , who seems at this time not to have been in touch with military reality , even now expected his left wing to advance and halt the invasion . |
| 6 | In his letter to Kevin , now expecting his fifth child , Longford , 86 , asks if he needs any consol-ing . |
| 7 | Whereas I had seen the doctor who used the charity format as something of a villain , Bulgakov portrays himself as a hero in these stories and plainly expects his Soviet readership to do the same . |
| 8 | AFTER a two-and-a-half-year lull I fully expect my great friendship with Graham Gooch to be back in full swing on the tour to India . |
| 9 | They go to all that trouble to feed strangers and then expect their own family to do without . |
| 10 | She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't ! |
| 11 | There he 'd met another woman whom he eventually married and she was then expecting their first child . |