Example sentences of "expect [det] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " 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 | It was humiliating , and she had not expected that kind of reaction from him . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | If we work extra hard for our employers we expect some kind of reward in return . |
| 10 | He had expected some kind of tart from Les Halles and found a respectable Jewish matron in an unbecoming colour . |
| 11 | Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Clearly , we could expect some sort of boundary indication , such as a pause , to occur long before the end of this utterance . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A national survey has shown one in 15 schools can expect some sort of fire . |
| 18 | ‘ Then he 'll surely expect some sort of explanation from me , ’ Harry said quietly . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ It is the last place you would expect this kind of thing to happen . |
| 21 | We do n't expect this sort of thing to happen to us . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You may be expecting some kind of platform game with bouncing mushrooms but instead you need a fair bit of brain power too ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Kuwait was trying to reassert its pre-Gulf war position and Saudi Arabia was expecting some sort of show of compromise , ’ one analyst said . |