Example sentences of "[adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was evident was that they had all expected Comrade Andrew to join them , even Alice , who knew he disapproved . |
| 2 | Worst affected is your love life , so expect dates to be cancelled or romantic liaisons to be put on ice . |
| 3 | He says there is flu in the community at this time of year so expect children to have flu symptoms . |
| 4 | He says there is flu in the community at this time of year so expect children to have flu symptoms . |
| 5 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 6 | The longest serving clerical workers , whose responsibilities include juggling patient admissions with spare beds , can only expect £6,235 , that 's even after 25 years ' experience . |
| 7 | Monica had drifted half-way back to the main road , apparently expecting Alice not to reappear . |
| 8 | Just wanted to clarify that little point , so you know the organs that make up the circulatory system , you know how to check it , you know the one slight difference than what you normally expect veins and arteries to be doing okay ? |
| 9 | Almost all the words which have both a strong and weak form belong to a category that may be called function words — words that do not have a dictionary meaning in the way that we normally expect nouns , verbs , adjectives and adverbs to have . |
| 10 | ‘ In a bear market you normally expect shares to drop 15 to 25 per cent over 18 months . |
| 11 | We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium . |
| 12 | He had not expected things to go like this . |
| 13 | But whoever these men had been , they had not expected stone and stone had won the day against the metal of their more ferocious weaponry . |
| 14 | He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman . |
| 15 | Certainly she had not expected Felipe , and her tears stopped suddenly as she absorbed this new shock . |
| 16 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |
| 17 | He had not expected Wang to be so upset , so patently indignant . |
| 18 | But we 've got to live by their rules and not expect privileges because we happen to be women . ’ |
| 19 | They just expect software and networking capabilities added in . |
| 20 | We should thus expect resistance from workers to attempts by management to wrest control from them , and the historical evidence for this is now forthcoming . |
| 21 | ‘ In India , ’ concludes the Mirza Nama , a gentleman ‘ should not expect intelligence and good behaviour from those who put big turbans on their heads . ’ |
| 22 | I tell you this because I know that I can not expect trust if I do not give it . |
| 23 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
| 24 | After Auschwitz , would you not expect Germans to take every conceivable care to stop German arms filtering through to where they could threaten Israel ? |
| 25 | And if a man permits his personal belief to distort , alter or transform historical fact , he can not expect others , whether or not they share his belief , to condone the process . |
| 26 | The committee do not expect members participating to be put to any expense or undue trouble , the proposal is merely to be an ‘ old boy ’ friend in a strange town or country . |
| 27 | He did not expect forgiveness . |
| 28 | Shieldaig did not expect visitors and there was no welcome for strangers . |
| 29 | We can not expect Britain to influence the direction the Community takes in the next decade unless it is a full and enthusiastic member . |
| 30 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |