Example sentences of "[coord] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had hoped her life might be completely happy and perfect , and expected Vronsky to sacrifice his whole life to love her entirely . |
| 2 | Piggy did not seem to understand human nature and naively told Ralph about his nickname and expected Ralph not to tell anyone . |
| 3 | Students today are used to visual effects of a high quality , such as in documentary programmes on television , and expect competence on behalf of the tutor and clinical teacher in their use . |
| 4 | Many first-time visitors are taken in , and expect exoticism . |
| 5 | Even now , many analysts think the improvement too good to be true , and expect inflation to rebound when the effects of devalued sterling work right through to the shops . |
| 6 | Young children often show a great interest and delight in their faeces and expect others to do the same . |
| 7 | Not being in loco parentis he can get on with his own job , and expect parents to do theirs . |
| 8 | could just bring him and expect stuff . |
| 9 | This will be achieved , it speculates , through OS/2 running on the RS6000 : ‘ we rate the RS/6000 architecture highly and expect IBM eventually to assume its natural position as market leader ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ With house costs running to thousands of pounds , it 's crazy not to invest in proper care and expect value for money . |
| 11 | Very few of them believe there is any magic ( if ever there was ) in the business and almost all of them want to understand the process and expect executive search consultants to provide that knowledge . |
| 12 | I would then emerge , beaming , and expect people to warm instantly to me . |
| 13 | Try to retain some sort of control over an emotional matter and expect partners to behave unpredictably and thoughtlessly . |
| 14 | As to this year 's profits , top City analysts have pencilled in around £45m pre-tax and expect Pickfords to chip in well over £4m , against last year 's £2.7m . |
| 15 | We pray — and expect God to respond within seconds . |
| 16 | Suffice it to say here that , during enculturation , individuals acquire , first , an image of themselves as helpless and dependent in a hostile and malevolent world that it is largely beyond their ability to control and , second , a set of habits and expectations that lead them to seek and expect aid and comfort from others in times of distress . |
| 17 | All adults need to be able to cope with diversity and to expect variety as we live in a highly varied world . |
| 18 | And meanwhile we 'll keep going you know and er and do what we have to do which is to make sure that when they get dow when they get round to that table sitting down that well certainly the the quarry men are not gon na be hungry if if you know what I mean I mean they they gon na sit there with full bellies in a sense that they 're not gon na be starved back and I mean th that sounds rather dramatic and a cliched but I mean when you 're living on the bread line and expecting money from week to week I mean that 's what it 's all about is n't it you know and and the food parcel . |
| 19 | It certainly is n't simply a case of just reading up on the reviews , playing around with a couple of the likely programs and then buying a system or two and expecting peace , harmony and perfect publications to be the end result ! |
| 20 | She left them , muttering under her breath about coming in here and expecting ice-cream when lunch was over . |
| 21 | So guilt is to do with taking responsibility and expecting punishment . |
| 22 | What I do n't want is a man who takes me out for a meal , buys a bottle of cheap plonk and expects payment in the form of instant sex , either in the back of his car , or if he gets really lucky , in my flat . |
| 23 | UI wants a simplified structure , and expects USL to expand WizDom to do what HP 's OpenView accomplishes . |
| 24 | Equally , if an institution has excess funds at the moment , and expects interest rates to rise , it will be acting rationally if it does not lend those funds out , except very short term . |
| 25 | It already has AppleTalk on NEWS , and expects demand to grow for workstations that can handle multiple operating systems . |
| 26 | The teacher who knows all the answers and expects pupils to produce a fixed sequence of arguments leading to some final conclusion is not the best person to draw creative thought from a class . |
| 27 | It sees no recovery in the world economy in 1993 and expects sales in real terms to be flat . |
| 28 | The meeting is open to the public but expect Taylor to give the banks a hard time . |
| 29 | That 's not at all bad , but expect time to first print to be longer for highly graphical subjects . |
| 30 | But to expect people to live reasonably is like asking them to live on paregoric . ’ |