Example sentences of "expect this [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name . |
| 2 | As a former member of his Household explained : ‘ He never expected this kind of reaction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Maude 's telegram from the Queen was also expected this morning at Trees Park Village , near Middleton St George , where she has lived for the last seven years . |
| 5 | ‘ It is the last place you would expect this kind of thing to happen . |
| 6 | We do n't expect this sort of thing to happen to us . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |