Example sentences of "[verb] expect more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already by the late middle ages the English were beginning to expect more space and more privacy in their houses than was to be normal in Scandinavia for another three centuries . |
| 2 | ‘ Being in Brighton has been beneficial to all of us , the food is good and we have trained on the Downs , ’ said Tolstikov , who could have expected more recognition at home following last year 's London win but instead found life harder , not better . |
| 3 | All of the grooms , except one who was asleep on some hay bales , had chosen not to sit in the car with their charges , and I imagined it was because of Leslie Brown 's daunting presence : racing lads on the whole felt a companionable devotion to their horses , and I would have expected more of them to be sitting on the hay bales during the day . |
| 4 | From a writer who edited Elle in its snazziest phase you would have expected more nous . |
| 5 | There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom . |
| 6 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |
| 7 | Her solar had also been much improved , as if her commissioner had expected more of her than her designers . |
| 8 | She had expected more censure , more blame , but instead Fen seemed to be taking everything upon himself . |
| 9 | We have to expect more wastage , ca n't keep putting it in and out of the fridge , could poison somebody . |