Example sentences of "[verb] expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come to expect surprises from Robertson . |
| 2 | Leonora bristled as she marched into the other room , realising she 'd expected murmurs of appreciation to greet her offering . |
| 3 | If she 'd expected signs of embarrassment or even an apology , it was obvious that she 'd miscalculated . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I suppose I 'd expected expressions of grief , probably pages and pages of it . |
| 5 | People communicate mainly verbally , and tend to expect horses to understand not only precise commands like ‘ whoa ! ’ and ‘ trot ! ’ , but also words with a more abstract meaning like ‘ steady ! ’ and ‘ easy ! ’ . |
| 6 | Doctors , matrons and sisters in hospitals tend to practise an autocratic style ; managers/directors who own their company also tend to expect things to be done their way ; |
| 7 | We tend to expect pupils to find words in dictionaries , because we assume it is a skill which is simply acquired . |
| 8 | This was unfortunate as Neil tends to expect laughs as the more usual response to his lines . |
| 9 | During a run in a Neil Simon play , I struggled with soft lenses but they made me cry constantly — which was unfortunate , as Neil tends to expect laughs . |
| 10 | In everyday affairs we formulate a generalization when we find ourselves beginning to expect consequences as before to follow when conditions are as before . |
| 11 | ‘ I would n't have expected claims to become due before 2005 or 2010 , so the payment has been accelerated . ’ |
| 12 | Had Voltaire used such a title as The Nature of Prejudice , his readers may have expected criticisms of clerics . |
| 13 | Never would he have expected encounters with an assault force of Chelonians and the galaxy 's most notorious criminal in the space of a day . |
| 14 | We do expect organisations from the projects in the programme to attend . |
| 15 | The parent will tend to recalibrate their response , as , as , as you have said , parents will come to expect children to make a lot of fuss about nothing , and consequently wo n't pay so much attention to a child 's distress as they would to an adult 's , because we regard it as natural , children to cry or make a fuss about the treatment we contribute , but the reason for that could be that we , we have as it were , readjusted our sensitivity to distress and we , we really have a double standard . |
| 16 | A buyer may come to expect concessions from a seller in return for purchasing . |
| 17 | They had expected game-birds to benefit from an increased food supply of insects as farmers stopped spraying pesticides to protect their cereal crops . |
| 18 | He had expected antiques , flowers , the portraits of past barons de Chavigny which had always hung in the old Baron 's offices . |
| 19 | He had expected losses , but this was above even his guestimate . |
| 20 | Since the introduction of A levels , English , Welsh , and Northern Irish schools , unlike schools in Scotland , Europe , or America , have expected pupils to study at most three examinable subjects in their years in the sixth form , these three being generally either all arts or all science subjects , though mathematics has been found commonly on either side of the divide . |