Example sentences of "[indef pn] expect [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end everyone expected a return on love , demanded a rebate of gratitude or respect . |
| 2 | When the settlers got to Virginia , everyone expected the gentlemen of the party to run things , just as in England . |
| 3 | Nobody expected the pupils to be paragons of perfection The standards the principal expected of herself were a different matter entirely . |
| 4 | Party loyalty is by no means an irrelevant factor in explaining and predicting the behaviour of congressmen , but on any issue that they perceive to be contentious within their districts nobody expects a member of Congress to put party before district . |
| 5 | Nobody expects a paragon of virtue but the nurse is meant to be realistic , is meant to have self-knowledge because the ‘ self ’ must be used in the relationship . |
| 6 | ( Surprised , though ; one expected a Swede to be neurotic — but a Scot ! ) |
| 7 | No one expected an attack from there . |
| 8 | The title of this book leads one to expect a contribution to the solution of this problem , but unfortunately these hopes are soon dashed . |
| 9 | Stuff of nightmares No one expects the life of a Peruvian gold prospector to be easy , but I doubt if many would expect to die from the bite of a rabid vampire bat . |
| 10 | Anyone expecting a story about inflight cyclic stick failure would have been disappointed , however : the piece concerned a helicopter pilot named Paul who had undergone a sex-change operation and is now known as Paula . |
| 11 | Anyone expecting a baby around the end of April and going to the Sorrento who would like to share the hire of a specialised birthing tank to use in labour ? |