Example sentences of "expect [det] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He smiled and lifted his champagne glass to his lips and Ruth expected some sort of challenge thrown out but none came and a strange feeling percolated inside her , almost disappointment , but she shooed away the notion .
2 He obviously expected some sort of reaction .
3 ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name .
4 As a former member of his Household explained : ‘ He never expected this kind of reaction .
5 erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem .
6 He did n't for one minute expect that sort of treatment in Gloucester , but that was how he would spend this afternoon .
7 The cooperativity between α-truncated polymerases and CRP is lost at the lac promoter , consequently it was expected that binding of CRP at its target in the -60 region would not lead to the occupancy of lac P1 by the mutant enzymes .
8 It was humiliating , and she had not expected that kind of reaction from him .
9 It was expected that measurement of surface heat radiation would provide clues to the planet 's chemical composition and the reasons behind the planet 's " greenhouse effect " .
10 Many workers said they 'd expected another round of closures despite the earlier announcement of a reprieve for some of the collieries .
11 If we work extra hard for our employers we expect some kind of reward in return .
12 He had expected some kind of tart from Les Halles and found a respectable Jewish matron in an unbecoming colour .
13 They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received .
14 Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one !
15 Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay .
16 Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay .
17 ‘ I would n't have expected any relation of Caro 's to be such an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy .
18 it is , is the policy i i is , is would you need to set this up as , as it being a long term I E ho how quickly would you expect that kind of process to work through ?
19 Clearly , we could expect some sort of boundary indication , such as a pause , to occur long before the end of this utterance .
20 Thus , using a plural in a continuation based on the verb + with conditions , where we might expect some sort of strain , does indeed produce a reliably higher number of continuations using both .
21 A national survey has shown one in 15 schools can expect some sort of fire .
22 ‘ Then he 'll surely expect some sort of explanation from me , ’ Harry said quietly .
23 Not surprisingly these features are principally confined to the cities of the province , though we might expect some form of provision at those sites where water transport clearly played a part in moving bulky products like building stone or pottery ( p. 43 ) .
24 ‘ It is the last place you would expect this kind of thing to happen .
25 We do n't expect this sort of thing to happen to us . ’
26 It would have been unreasonable of the author/translator to expect this item of information to remain in the reader 's consciousness after three intervening pages and an explicitly marked change of scene or topic .
27 You may be expecting some kind of platform game with bouncing mushrooms but instead you need a fair bit of brain power too !
28 It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled .
29 ‘ Kuwait was trying to reassert its pre-Gulf war position and Saudi Arabia was expecting some sort of show of compromise , ’ one analyst said .
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