Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’ |
| 2 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 3 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 4 | But it was foolish — unreasonable of me to expect … ’ |
| 5 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 6 | Neither of them expected it , especially with everyone listening in . |
| 7 | None of them expects miracles in the economy this year and growth forecasts range from a bare 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent . |
| 8 | None of them expects miracles in the economy this year and growth forecasts range from a bare 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent . |
| 9 | ‘ Lowering of you to expect me to remember . |
| 10 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 11 | It was nice to know he felt good about her being here but she wanted more than that — but how selfish of her to expect any more . |
| 12 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 13 | It was unreasonable of him to expect her to know what it meant to people like Mrs Appleby to receive a visit from an employer . |
| 14 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 15 | Anyone who saw them with Soul II Soul will have some idea of what to expect , but not the whole story . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the table opposite will give you some idea of what to expect : for example , a man aged 30 investing just £25 a month could look forward to a cheque for £63,400 on his 65th birthday — with another £19,400 for his family if he died at the age of 80 . |
| 17 | Earlier visitors , a mere two or three centuries ago , knew less of what to expect . |
| 18 | In this chapter I shall set out all those questions which are most frequently asked by prospective patients , and which have not already been covered in Chapter 1 ; and in Chapter 3 , by giving details of the progress of one particular case , I shall endeavour to provide some idea of what to expect during a typical regression therapy session . |
| 19 | Edward the First had sacked the town in 1296 , as an example to the rest of the country of what to expect if his take-over was opposed ; but thereafter that megalomaniac prince had found it useful as a staging-point for his occupation of the northern kingdom . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ I played in the unofficial Tests against all the rebel sides that came out to South Africa in the 1980s and that gave me a good idea of what to expect . |
| 21 | If I know very little about the firm or the people in it , then , to reduce my uncertainty , I will invent my own snapshots of what to expect . |
| 22 | However , it did provide some valuable indications of what to expect in the races ahead . |
| 23 | The second time around , however , you feel more confident of what to expect . |
| 24 | Until he was contacted the arriving forces had no idea of what to expect . |
| 25 | And with the launch of MS-DOS 6 due at the end of March , we 'll also be giving you a sneak preview of what to expect . |
| 26 | This should give you a good idea of what to expect if you do n't have the processing power or , perhaps more importantly , the inclination , to go Windows shopping . |
| 27 | Wendy had more idea of what to expect , she had helped to look after her little brothers at home , but it was still hard work having a baby of her own . |
| 28 | I knew nobody and had no idea of what to expect when I presented myself to the new teacher in my new black overall and white collar . |
| 29 | Mrs Goreng had been too kind to them in the sense of what to expect . |
| 30 | IF TASMANIA COULD BE REGARDED as a microcosm of what to expect from the great continent of Australia , Gould 's exhilaration as he sailed towards Sydney could not , understandably , have been higher . |