Example sentences of "[verb] expect [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 2 | Though I was , having expected one of the great historic documents of planning , bitterly disappointed with the Plan when I first studied it , I now think that in the circumstances Abercrombie did as well as any man , of the type who can survive in planning practice , could have done . |
| 3 | Members of the group will come to expect one another to conform to these patterns if they wish to remain members of it . |
| 4 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
| 5 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 6 | We had expected 25 years at the most . |