Example sentences of "expect [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I expect some of those boys in the village have probably been shooting vermin .
2 You can expect each of these products to have all the basic functions , so they 're pretty similar in those terms .
3 • With Valentine 's day so near to the closing date , we were expecting hundreds of soppy cards , bouquets of flowers , bottles of champagne and heart-shaped chocolates to come flooding into the office — there must have been a postal strike .
4 Taut with nervous expectation upon the horse , Dauntless expected one of two scenarios to ensue : something maddened and destructive would erupt at the signal of Cleo 's knock , or else there would be utter silence and no response at all .
5 MIPS expects 10,000 to 20,000 chips to go to early NT adopters from the first half of next year , increasing to around 100,000 in 1994 as NT gets more broadly accepted .
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