"expect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

expect verbo

expect + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 163
expect earnings • expect sales • expect trouble • expect results • expect things • expect growth • expect people • expect changes • ...
verbo + expect
Kolokacji: 8
keep expecting • come to expect • seem to expect • led to expect • told to expect • ...
expect + preposición
Kolokacji: 38
expected until • expect from • expected within • expected during • expected before • ...
expect + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 51
widely expected • fully expect • hardly expect • reasonably expect • half expect • originally expected • generally expected • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
(2) fully, well
Kolokacji: 2
(3) hardly, scarcely
Kolokacji: 2
2. scarcely expect = ledwie oczekuj scarcely expect
  • The killer could scarcely expect to cover the fact that one man committed both murders.
  • Quite certainly Anne's parents would be more ambitious for her than that; so we scarcely expected anything to come of it.
  • One would scarcely expect an immediate admission, in any case.
  • She could scarcely expect him to remember, in any case.
  • "No, I could scarcely expect to yet, but why do you ask?"
  • He wasn't happy, but I scarcely expected him to be happy.
  • He has not, of course, but you will scarcely expect my cousin to believe that!
  • At the same time, she carried on her life with such independence that he scarcely expected any confidence to be expressed in words.
  • You could scarcely expect to have your personal choice rejected.
  • You can scarcely expect to keep such news a secret, my Lord.
(4) reasonably, logically
Kolokacji: 2
(5) originally, initially
Kolokacji: 2
(9) simply, honestly, rightly
Kolokacji: 3

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