Example sentences of "expect [det] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Numerous bidders expected this Fairchild to reach into the $ 35–45,000 range . |
2 | A large proportion of firms expected this expansion to continue throughout the 1980s . |
3 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
4 | Now we would expect that justification to emerge from this examination and in due course to be embodied in the er lower case script for the alteration itself . |
5 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
6 | Everyone in the village is shocked , you do n't expect such things to happen in a quiet backwater . |
7 | Even so we do not expect such spells to lead to permanent changes in our lifestyle . |
8 | Do not expect these wines to taste like champagne . |
9 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
10 | I do n't expect most people to agree with these figures . |
11 | Social workers appear to expect few benefits to accrue from residential care . |
12 | ‘ I do n't think it is fair to expect this lady to pay for a new lock . |
13 | Of course , one has to expect such things to occur amongst maids and footmen , and a good butler should always take this into account in his planning ; but such marrying amongst more senior employees can have an extremely disruptive effect on work . |
14 | After a meeting with umpires Steve Randell and Terry Prue , Subba Row said in a statement that he expected all players to adhere to proper standards of behaviour . |
15 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
16 | Liz , a busy working mother of three , is pictured with promotions executive , Elizabeth Ollier , who is expecting many friends to join in the family celebrations . |
17 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
18 | Farm incomes are expected to fall in the 1990s and the Commission expects many farmers to participate in the scheme , despite initial protests that the payments are too low . |
19 | Should the ensuing insomnia mean dropping off during the day , then again you will be awakened , this time by real Hercules transport planes — Elveden Forest , being in East Anglia , is very close to numerous air-bases and so many jets scream overhead that one expects any minute to bump into a tight-lipped Kate Adie dressed in camouflage fatigues . |