Example sentences of "[adv] expect a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tae kwon do is the Korean art of self-defence and Britain 's rather good at it , so expect a lot of that on your screens . |
| 2 | On the other hand , people naturally expected a return to prewar " normality " — prewar living standards , the old way of life , and elements , at least , of the old political system . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , one naturally expects a cattery to be more austere , ’ said Mark . |
| 4 | Taxi drivers on the resort island of Jerba , close to the Libyan border , are already expecting a windfall from the transit of foreigners working in Libya . |
| 5 | We always expected an appeal to An Bord Pleanala and we are well prepared for it ’ . |
| 6 | How could she possibly expect a girl of Cissie 's years to understand how a woman could love so deeply that there seemed no shame in it at all ? |
| 7 | He clearly expected a reply in the negative . |
| 8 | According to the poll , conducted among directors of the leading 500 companies , 96 per cent of business leaders think a Labour victory would bring higher interest rates , while 83 per cent also expect a fall in the value of the pound against the German mark . |
| 9 | If you do decide to stop before this happens , perhaps someone else can put him to bed , so he does n't automatically expect a breastfeed before going to sleep . |
| 10 | In the case of a young man of 25 in a managerial or professional occupation with good job prospects one could reasonably expect a multiplier of 17 or 18 . |
| 11 | Of the higher officers of state in the fourteenth century most were in holy orders and many could reasonably expect a bishopric as the reward of their secular labours . |
| 12 | But here one may also expect a degree of individual variation . |
| 13 | Additional targets set by Minister for Social Security Peter Lilley include : the identification of at least 40,000 extra self-employed people who should be registered ; a £12m increase in returns from identified Class 1 NI underpayments ; a £13.3m increase in payments of arrears ; and efficiency savings of £2.6m. 95% of customers can also expect a response to their enquiries within 10 working days . |
| 14 | One would also expect a difference in attitudes between general managers of state corporations and those of transnationals . |
| 15 | Scot Colin Montgomerie 's wife Eimear is also expecting a baby at around the same time . |
| 16 | We 're now expecting an offer from Melchester Rovers . |
| 17 | The Treasury now expects a fall of 1% in non-oil GDP in 1992 , followed by growth of 1% in 1993 : the average GDP growth in 1993 forecast by independents is 1 1/2 % . |
| 18 | When he came over to me I fully expected a slap on my kisser , I being the known ring-leader . |
| 19 | ‘ If I had n't replied to a client for five months I would almost expect a visit from them in response to a complaint ! ’ |
| 20 | The Dwarfs advanced in battle formation fully expecting an attack from the steep mountain slopes which towered ominously above the old Dwarf road . |
| 21 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 22 | One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state , because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves . |