Example sentences of "[pers pn] [Wh det] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second , however , tells you what to expect from the 2 procedures . |
| 2 | , I 'm only telling you what to expect you know , when you go on holiday |
| 3 | He got to his feet and walked on tip-toe to the kitchen door , where he pressed his face close to the crack , listening for any sound that might tell him what to expect . |
| 4 | The big man had obviously come on deck to warn me what to expect from the twins , and for that I was grateful . |
| 5 | he never told me what to expect , an I I feel like suing him . |
| 6 | You can tell me what to expect . |
| 7 | In doing this , he takes us over the ground first , telling us what to expect , what to look for , so that when the hurricane does hit it hits us harder : |
| 8 | Our experience of particular communicative situations teaches us what to expect of that situation , both in a general predictive sense ( e.g. the sort of attitudes which are likely to be expressed , the sort of topics which are likely to be raised ) which gives rise to notions of ‘ appropriacy ’ , and in a limited predictive sense which enables us to interpret linguistic tokens ( e.g. deictic forms like here and now ) in the way we have interpreted them before in similar contexts . |