Example sentences of "[verb] expect [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Mrs Pember Reeves noted that the Lambeth housewives she visited ‘ seemed to expect judgement to be passed on the absent man according to the amount he allowed them . ’ |
2 | Earl Spencer 's friend told to expect jail for £1.8m swindle |
3 | However , children who are doing badly tend to expect failure and criticism , since it may have little effect on them except to confirm their worst beliefs about themselves and reduce their efforts . |
4 | Meantime according to the new ClieNT Server News , Microsoft 's 24 OEM hardware suppliers have been told to expect client and server Windows NT products from June 15 , though other insiders say the server software may not be around until later in July . |
5 | Microsoft 's 24 OEM hardware suppliers have been told to expect client and server Windows NT products from June 15th , though other insiders say the server software may not be around until later in July . |
6 | Teeth gritted expecting disaster . |
7 | I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree . |
8 | Of course , an absurd price is exactly what we would have expected Ephron to suggest in the circumstances . |
9 | Had he smiled I would have expected gold teeth . |
10 | Except , of course , she could never — ever — tell them what that folly had led to — even if , looking back , she could now honestly say that she had done nothing to provoke it , that she could have expected anger from Havvie at her changing her mind , but never that he would do as he did . |
11 | She would have expected anger , not this — nothingness . |
12 | About this time of year she 'd have expected business to be picking up , but instead it remains ominously quiet . |
13 | Actually , not one of its members is a day over 50 ( although all of them are coming close ) but you might reasonably have expected age to leave Daltrey , Townshend , and Entwistle looking worse than well-travelled . |
14 | Clarke explained that if Halsbury had won by such a majority he could not have expected elevation to a judgeship . |
15 | So when the actual rate of inflation rises to 4 per cent in Fig. 6.4 , people continue to expect zero inflation for a while and only in the long-run do they revise their expectations upwards towards 4 per cent . |
16 | However , many domestic horses have been conditioned to expect food from people . |
17 | Foreign scholars as well as foreign diplomats found to their surprise that where they had been led to expect barbarity , they found civilization and love of learning ; for Giovanni Ferreri , who settled in the abbey of Kinloss , close to the university of Aberdeen , Girolamo Aleandro , teacher of Greek and Hebrew at Paris , and Girolamo Cardano , physician of Milan , Scottish scholars were welcome members of the academic community of Europe . |
18 | Dressed in a freshly laundered dhoti , a clean white turban wrapped neatly around his head and a rough khadi coat buttoned up to the collar , he walks with the gait of a man accustomed to expect deference . |
19 | The second question is the second certainly made by the Noble Earl was that the Department of Transport were urgently examining the situation , I trust with the Home Office at the same time and I would suggest that we might in fact discuss this matter if I might make er if I might make this suggestion to the Noble Earl , between now and the report stage , so that this matter can be clarified but I am sure that he will understand that we would not in fact be er feel able to erm ignore this issue er in the period between the beginning of the committee stage today and the third reading of this Bill , we do expect Government amendments to be introduced . |
20 | WHEN we cast our votes at election time , we do n't expect candidates to be paragons of virtue but we do expect honesty and integrity — traits completely lacking in this discredited Government . |
21 | After all , why should the board cease to expect proof of the impact of their media spending once the recession is over ? |
22 | He had expected weakness to yield to strength . |
23 | Brian and Deborah Curley had expected champagne and flowers when they arrived at the four star hotel on the island of Tenerife after a perfect wedding . |
24 | He had expected money to answer every need . |
25 | Fortescue looked surprised , as if he had expected Athelstan to keep his mouth shut for the entire interview . |
26 | But where she had expected harshness she felt instead only the soft warmth of his lips on her throat , and a rush of longing coursed through her entire body , strong enough to make her buckle at the knees . |
27 | She had expected passion and had been prepared to bluff that away , but this was different . |
28 | She had expected mockery , and , judging by the unnatural stillness she felt in fitzAlan 's body , he had intended to mock her . |
29 | She had expected violence , she had thought her father would shout and roar at her , she was certain he would beat her . |
30 | Finubar had expected mud huts and primitive savages . |