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Example sentences for "expect from"

  • You must accomplish this secretly and in the good manner I expect from you.

  • I charge and order you to do all this and more which you may consider advantageous to our service and to the good interest of our estates and of said fleet, with that diligence and fidelity which I expect from you.

  • Why I would have you, as I know you have a good fancy, give Pamela your judgment on some patterns I expect from London, for clothes.

  • She had no illusions left about them, nor about the treatment she had to expect from them.

  • When the body is worn and has no more to expect from life, then the emotions become disinterested and fall into their place; and then once more the source of childish tears is reopened.

  • If that scoundrel Diener, who had been his friend, had given him such a welcome, what had he to expect from a rascal whom he had handled roughly, who had good cause to hate him?

  • You have no interest in their return; nothing to expect from them.

  • Will it be honest on your part to ask her to abandon the rank which she will be entitled to expect from you?

  • I put it to you whether it would be honest on your part to ask her to abandon the rank which she will be entitled to expect from you.

  • Would it be honest on your part," Lady Persiflage had asked him, "to ask her to abandon the rank which she will be entitled to expect from you?

  • Their conduct towards the whole nation is more iniquitous, than we had the right to expect from a horde of Hottentots.

  • But this class has been taught, by late Decrees, what it has to expect from him; and how far he is to be confided-in for its especial interests.

  • Great Britain has taught us what to expect from Submission to its Power.

  • The Truth is, we have never had that Information from our Friends at Watertown of the State of things which we have thought we had good reason to expect from them.

  • What have we to expect from Britain, but Chains & Slavery?

  • We have nothing more to expect from her, since the only resource which remained has been destroyed.

  • You shall act in this with the care that I expect from you.

  • And with that prudence which I expect from you, you shall see that the religious orders and the religious observe this matter.

  • You shall have the care in this that I expect from you, and as is demanded by its importance.

  • You shall exercise the same care, and shall attend to the matter with the mildness and efficient means that I expect from you.

  • We regret that the pacific arrangements pursued with regard to certain hostile tribes of Indians have not been attended with that success which we had reason to expect from them.

  • If this, then, be your treatment while the swords you wear are necessary for the defense of America, what have you to expect from peace, when your voice shall sink and your strength dissipate by division?

  • He said with a smile, I think I ought to go if it were for no other reason but that I may have my dust mingled with that of my forefathers; and this office, Bidulph, I expect from you, if you should outlive me.

  • But what else are we to expect from Champions of a Cause which has only the feeble Props of Misrepresentation and low Artifice to support it!

  • I wrote and wrote; I liquidated all the arrears of my correspondence, and then went on writing to people who had no reason whatever to expect from me a gossipy letter about nothing at all.

  • Moreover, the substance of human nature is so mixed that it would perhaps be fanatical to expect from Whitman's chivalry of "adhesiveness" a more immaculate purity than was attained by the mediaeval chivalry of "amativeness.

  • We have therefore to expect from it no delicate distinctions, no anthropological investigations, no psychological analysis, and no spirit of toleration.

  • To expect from me and from my fellows the renouncement voluntarily undertaken by a Catholic priest is an absurdity, when we join no order, have no faith to uphold, no ecclesiastical system to support.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chosen band; come from; common object; expect from; expect them; expect they; expect you; expected every; expected from; expecting every; express words; great builder; important business; mailing address; many cases; merry time; opposite direction; petroleum products; poor sinner; rejoined the; result from; richly decorated; sending back; telegraph operator; then down; will raise