Example sentences of "expect [det] [noun] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone in the village is shocked , you do n't expect such things to happen in a quiet backwater . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 5 | 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 . |