Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect that lot belonged to her late husband . ’ |
| 2 | Andrew Mills and Brian Sturgess at Barclays de Zoete Wedd expect full-year profits to fall from £75m to £70m . |
| 3 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
| 4 | Woking expect 4,000 fans to travel to what should be Brighton 's biggest gate of the season . |
| 5 | Thus , for example , if one wanted to study the reactions of women readers of romantic novels to a change in the cover design of a series of books , a group of , say , eight women of varying ages and social classes could be got together either in a house or in a discussion room at a research agency and a trained discussion leader would ask questions of them about their reading interests and , generally speaking , what they expect romantic novels to look like . |
| 6 | Now they expect responsible customers to pay for their folly . |
| 7 | We open tonight , expect wonderful reception judging by other performances . ’ |
| 8 | Hills cut him from 10-1 to 6-1 , prompting their representative , Don Payne , to comment : ‘ You expect big market moves before races like this , but I 've never seen anything on this scale . ’ |
| 9 | We must start to define where we expect genuine refugees to come from . |
| 10 | In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate . |