Example sentences of "expect [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Even the massed ranks of City supporters behind the United goal could not have expected their great rivals to throw away their lead in such a foolish manner . |
| 2 | Before reading further , think about the last few chapters and decide what you expect their empirical studies have found . |
| 3 | They can be used for retirement planning for those currently paying the top rate of income tax and who expect their post-retirement income to attract basic tax only . |
| 4 | They go to all that trouble to feed strangers and then expect their own family to do without . |
| 5 | The people of Northern Ireland and , indeed , of Britain and the Republic expect their constitutional politicians to put aside their differences in pursuit of a peaceful political solution and to raise no false obstacles to sitting down to discuss matters among themselves . |
| 6 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
| 7 | I now expect you young girls to keep bright and shining . |
| 8 | The girls I knew at COHQ thought he was particularly unattractive , but I expect his own girls applied different criteria . |
| 9 | The lesson our Party draws is important that all of us , individuals and corporations alike , have a responsibility to reflect the values we expect our fellow citizens to exhibit . |
| 10 | I expect our little miss found it repugnant , the first dirty old man she was put to . |
| 11 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 12 | However , Rangers do not expect their stalling tactics to deter Rovers , and they will be unable to refuse a £4m offer unless they are poised to claim honours of their own . |
| 13 | If glass vessels were prestigious drinking vessels , one might expect their cheaper equivalents to appear in the ceramic assemblage ; true skeuomorphs are not present amongst the pottery , although there is a strong similarity between the turned wooden vessels with metal rims from the Sutton Hoo mound I ship burial and the squat jars of Harden 's type VIII ( 1956b ; 1978 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But do n't expect your fellow students to constitute a representative cross-section of the community at large — if only because they contain an above-average proportion of younger people and others who are most able to sustain continuous study and to benefit from college education . |
| 16 | I realise that there are constraints of time and problems with dissemination , but you would not expect your local GP to prescribe a drug unless he was satisfied that its use was justified by reference to the available research material . |
| 17 | Given all the millennia we have to play with in the stratigraphical record , we can expect our periodic catastrophes to do all the work we want of them . |
| 18 | It is not fair to expect your local delicatessen to do it for you as it takes a long time to slice the whole ham and Parma must be cut thinly . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He fiddled with a piece of card he was carrying and glowered at the exit to the Customs hall as if he was expecting his worst enemy to come through the door . |
| 22 | Even Nietzsche expected his future Supermen to form a community . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour . |
| 25 | Tektronix expects its X terminals emulating the 3270 to be hugely successful with users wanting to replace terminals with a windowed environment without the pain of retraining staff on a new system . |
| 26 | The party expects its young hopefuls to fight at least one unwinnable seat in a rotting inner city or municipal wilderness before letting them have a crack at a seat in the safe suburbs . |
| 27 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Defeat was no disaster however to Boutin who still expects his fallen hero to rise again . |
| 30 | Eric Cador , marketing centre director for Hewlett-Packard Co 's personal computer division in Grenoble , France is a contrarian and expects his own company to ship 2.4 to 2.5 times as many Vectras in Europe in the current quarter as it did a year earlier and he forecasts that revenue will double from the year-ago level . |