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    1. Moreover, what God expect


    2. An optimistic outlook enables you to expect that good things will happen in your life


    3. You need to be able to expect yourself to do what you said you would do when you said you would do it


    4. need to expect yourself to live with integrity


    5. You also need to expect yourself to be committed


    6. From yourself, expect 100% commitment and


    7. but still He expect us to meet the standard of uprightness


    8. Keep family members and other visitors up to date on the patient's condition so they know what to expect in terms of interaction


    9. Ava had spoken with Kulai about Herndon and quite a few others, it would not be a total surprise, he would expect no less


    10. Focus on the advantages of age and expect to be as healthy as you can be

    11. failed by our ways of doing things, and still expect the


    12. We don’t know what to expect down there,” Johnny said as he held out his hand protectively while peering into the darkness of the descending stairs


    13. Even so, he would fight back until he died, and she would probably expect no less


    14. For example, if you mention your child as the owner of your home but you expect your spouse to reside there till his/her death, then a mention must be made in the will to this effect


    15. He left here about twenty minutes ago so I expect he will be there soon


    16. ‘It is going to screw me up financially … I expect Stephen has told you that I lost my job


    17. ‘Liz?’ said a voice I didn’t expect to hear


    18. but what else could the man expect


    19. "It's not decided yet, but don't expect more than €350 a month at the very most


    20. ‘Stephen’s got a pretty foul temper himself … I expect it was six of one and half a dozen of the other if the truth were told

    21. her temper is rarely long lived, in fact, I expect she was regretting it before he was halfway home


    22. But still Stephen doesn’t call … after two days, I hardly expect him to though a tiny flame of hope persists in driving me crackers


    23. foremost knowledge, but he must expect that the highest power will


    24. ‘As I expect Stephen said


    25. it today? We should always expect it, in spite of the things we see, putting


    26. I expect he’ll let it again quite easily


    27. expect the tumour to resolve by itself just because you are Christian


    28. Do not expect that your child will grow up and turn away from this


    29. I suppose he is naturally careful what he says – comes of being a lawyer, I expect – the agency did mention that the company has a high turnover of staff though which is worrying


    30. ‘She’ll be frantic, I expect

    31. Who else is there? Oh yes, I expect you’ll meet Harvey Wadsworth … he’s a nuisance, fancies himself a bit


    32. ‘I expect they hit traffic on the motorway


    33. I don’t know what speed limits Jeremy broke between his place and here, but he and Tonya are at the door before I expect them


    34. Man in love ---> (shouting) Kill me a time, you expect!


    35. I expect her to be enthusiastic about it, yet I am nonplussed at her immediate frigidity: “I have nothing to do this afternoon, but I am not in the mood of going to such a lecture, I had better stay home alone,” she announces in a low voice and leaves me wondering, since she has always given me the impression of being very interested in such matters


    36. "Well, we still have to instruct them on what to do, what to expect


    37. “Anyway, what is a would-be doctor good for? You should wait for him to finish his studies, and that could take ages! Like an old friend of mine, who had an affair with a medicine student, she waited for him to take his diploma, she even helped him financially to open his surgery, and in the end he dumped her! So, what did you expect? It's a fortunate thing that he hasn't called!” she concludes with a shrieking voice and her usual air of importance


    38. ‘I expect he told you he cares about you, didn’t he?’


    39. After all, you expect us to take the affection and support you offer us, allow us to return the favour


    40. He didn't expect something like that to come from such an exquisite creature, "What kind of name is that?" She notices his confusion and returns it with a puzzled look of her own, like the answer should be obvious

    41. I knew what to expect


    42. "They won't expect much from me after this," Glenelle said, "I set up that big old cherub I had with my butterfly flipper personification and worked up all the nuances I could think of into it


    43. They hadn’t moved until she did … that much was clear … So she’d stepped off the bus, stood for a moment to get her bearings and then set off down the road … there’d been no pedestrian pathway, but she didn’t expect one


    44. I shouldn’t expect much out of life, because, after all, I’m a


    45. She tossed the dry wrap down to Luray who was now glad to put it on, the temperature was getting to closer to what one would expect on a Nightday in mid winter


    46. Do I truly expect them to believe that God is good when there is so much suffering in the world? The answer is yes


    47. You cannot expect everything


    48. This is your culture and I can't expect to take you out of it and I will try very hard not to complain about it


    49. As she neared the corner, she went wide, eyes scanning ahead and spotted the men, standing together to one side of the walkway … ostensibly talking animatedly … no, one of them’s glanced to see if I’m coming … They paid her no attention as she neared them – she didn’t expect them to


    50. They expect Alan to walk up there, like a willing morsel to a metal monster













































    1. "I get your point," she tried not to hiss even though she should have expected it, "but I can't go up North again


    2. Her attack hadn’t gone as she had expected, and she hadn’t thought that Scar was nearly as strong as he was


    3. He pulled his knife to slit Fox's throat, expected him to beg, but instead Fox laughed at him


    4. "I expected to be guarding the shuttlecraft this dark," he said


    5. Of course she hadn't expected to be placed in a body like this


    6. of expected someone a bit more


    7. Thicke didn't know if he was expected to answer that or not


    8. I half expected something grand, formal even, but it’s not


    9. This was not quite the welcome that Johnny had expected, but he’d come


    10. Tahlmute had clearly expected his friend at the Kassikan to be working for the other side in this dispute

    11. Melinda had followed Theo's rise to stardom in the fight against international crime, but this was all he had? He expected her to take a giant professional risk that could blight her career while he nosed around the tattoo parlors of Darklow town?


    12. This was not what Lucy expected


    13. She hadn't expected this reaction, she had just been reading the signs as she always did


    14. Why she had expected it to be more, she couldn't say


    15. With the departure going on I expected a whole screen full of urgents this morning


    16. He expected nothing less than the full power of her wrath


    17. lips that kiss, freedom, hope and love that both had expected


    18. The cruel voice of the big fat bully on the bus resounded in his mind and he fully expected to see her time and again on his way to work every day


    19. Timms nodded like he’d expected that


    20. The whole episode played out on a video screen, a new level in a deadly shooting game in which we were the canned crowd expected to applaud on cue

    21. Bahkmar wondered how Bellam expected the three hundred members of theology would convert three thousand natives


    22. He hadn’t expected that


    23. He grabbed her breast as it passed over his arm, found she was much firmer than he expected and his pants moved a bit more


    24. The places on her torso where the artificial limbs attached were pink ovals, lumpy with contracted fibers and at the center of it all was the titanium bone and the expected set of ports for the neural interface processors that did the fantastically complicated and nuanced task of translating between machine language and the language of the human neurological system


    25. Nothing had crapped out yet, but Tig kept his face like stone, expecting something he never expected to fail at any moment


    26. We expected the women who had Christian husbands to be kept


    27. Therefore, there is nothing else to do; I can only accept the situation passively, as something I actually expected


    28. I hadn’t expected this


    29. " Among the Elves one is expected to be able to read when they pass one decade and become a child


    30. Byram expected him back in fourteen local weeks, three quarters of the brief local year

    31. This was much better reception from her than he had expected


    32. The sheep suddenly scattered as another sound, closer, less expected, broke through the background of train, birds, sea and herbage; they regrouped a short distance beyond and stood staring


    33.  doing what’s expected


    34. Luray actually looked pretty sturdy out there, compared to what Desa expected


    35. Son had already survived longer than the king had expected


    36. Alan expected the lights here in the hall would be turned up when the show ended


    37. This is to be expected


    38. ‘He wasn’t, but he’s finished his work earlier than expected


    39. He hadn’t expected to get away with this one


    40. She stared at him for a long time smiling, and then stood up and did something he never expected

    41. ’ He replied, much as I expected him to


    42. “Well, that went better then expected” said Joe


    43. The dragon flew as was expected, west towards the hills then


    44. Kate had not expected this response


    45. He was more than what she expected


    46. I would have expected some activity


    47. But that is to be expected from such procedures


    48. 'My folks are staunch Catholics and now they're demanding their expected grandchild to be christened and brought up a Catholic


    49. Not as terrifying as I expected


    50. To my surprise, the cabin is tidy … I had expected Joris to be one of those men who leave things wherever they drop, but I was wrong













































    1. read about God in His word, they are not expecting


    2. I believe the reason they are not expecting it, is because


    3. He didn't seen to understand, but he wouldn't have been expecting it and Jorma's pronunciation was probably atrocious


    4. “And you want to ask me about this? Are you kidding? Are you expecting me to feel sorry for you?” Kira was not angry, exactly, but she wondered why on earth he would have come all this way to have this particular conversation with her


    5. Keep believing and expecting the supernatural acts of


    6. Had he been expecting me to lie to him?


    7. When doostEr looked at him like he was expecting more he said, "Hoping to hear there's something looking up somewhere," and that was all he would say


    8. I think back to that phone call earlier … okay so I’d been expecting another of those nasty phone calls, but even so, you’d been pleased to hear his voice, hadn’t you?


    9. She looked up expecting to see rough, serrated concrete but saw instead and


    10. She lasted until they both graduated … I think she was expecting it to go on, but they were unable to get jobs in the same town and, after about six months of living fifty miles apart, it fizzled out

    11. He zoomed in expecting to see a human figure in an exosuit floating out there in the debris, clinging to a piece of rent bulkhead like some parody of a castaway


    12. I scrabbled frantically around the mattress feeling for the rough weave of hessian, expecting the light on the wall to flare into life and singe to black my eyeballs


    13. Constantine Square on time, expecting to meet George at 6:30 pm


    14. Nothing had crapped out yet, but Tig kept his face like stone, expecting something he never expected to fail at any moment


    15. This is how I suddenly got the Key to Awareness – which allows me to experience the interrelation between time and space, to experience death and birth every moment, always expecting the unforeseeable


    16. Then, without my expecting it at all, he pauses and seeks to kiss and hug me


    17. How would they know it was me? Might they not think that the guards had cottoned-on to them and were playing a joke? Were they even now expecting the doors to slam open and the night air to be filled with the dull thud of fists and boots and wooden stocks?


    18. She introduced herself as a relation of JJ’s birth mother, half expecting antagonism


    19. She looked up expecting to see rough, serrated concrete but saw instead and to her utter amazement stars in their millions


    20. "This is more than I was expecting to see in Zhlindu," he said, "This mall goes on forever

    21. I have primed Wiesse that we are expecting an extra incomer and assume, again from what you wrote, that it is someone with Errdian heritage – unless they are totally unsuitable, and I sincerely doubt you would be sending them across if that were the case, there will be no problem allowing him or her to stay


    22. He stared at the envelope as if expecting it to explode


    23. ‘I was fully expecting them to tell me to go jump


    24. ‘I hope you won’t take it the wrong way, Karal, but I keep expecting to detect something alien … and failing


    25. expecting the familiar tread of his boot,


    26. Angie would write herself but she is at Abery at the moment, expecting to produce their second child any day


    27. Despite the fact Ethereead was expecting it;


    28. Though it is my view that it is all part and parcel of the problem of being highly strung and expecting too much of yourself


    29. expecting callers” said Fred


    30. The four Jodechians were silent; they were not expecting anything

    31. She watched from inside as he gave them a lecture fully expecting them to understand what he was saying


    32. We have been expecting you


    33. But Alderfolk Pottypears was not expecting the flash and


    34. She was expecting to be dismissed from


    35. into the heat of bodies under canvas, waiting, expecting,


    36. ’ Berndt said, ‘He’s expecting a parcel of some sort so he says


    37. ‘It would be typical of Joris to have something I’m not expecting lurking somewhere


    38. 'What? I definitely wasn't expecting that


    39. Jake was expecting them and chuckled when they entered the large hall


    40. ‘Whatever do you mean?’ Clearly, this is not what he was expecting me to say

    41. If I'd been expecting wonderment and vitality from that room, I'd hit the right note because it was there by the barrelful


    42. He lay there thinking that this was it for him, expecting death he started to cry


    43. They all marched in to the shop expecting to see the young man lurking in the shadows, but he was nowhere to be found


    44. He explained that his wife was expecting and that, although they appreciated his kind gesture, the cottage was really a bit small for a growing family


    45. With the last word spoken quite loudly, and in clear Greek, I turned from the group with as much control as I could muster and wandered steadily and slowly toward the kitchen, expecting a blow to the head at every trembling step


    46. ’ Caroline said, clearly expecting me to know who he is


    47. I wasn’t expecting that! But my new found confidence comes to my rescue and I give him a straight answer


    48. Look!' I spun round expecting the worst but at that moment the Delfini cut the air with its now familiar horn announcing the arrival of the Princess of Stephanos


    49. The men are deep in conversation when we get back to the table, and both look at me as though expecting me to be upset in some way


    50. A small thin female opened the door almost instantly, “Lord Tarak, Master Denair is expecting you,” she said in a soft voice as she glided across the floor, “please follow me














































    1. Lopez professes to be the only ‘Absolutely Organic’ spraying/pest specialist in the United States (at this time, even though he expects more to come out), pointing out that


    2. "And Ava expects us to start training about


    3. and know what Christ expects of the church


    4. They should also know what God expects of them once an eldership is in place


    5. He laughs to himself, anticipating her sweet response, but what she says to him isn't what he expects


    6. Since everyone expects to live indefinitely, there is a lot more incentive to think sustainably in this culture


    7. After awhile your brain expects to be stoned, so being stoned is normal to it


    8. ‘I sent one with a query to him and in his reply he says he expects to be here late afternoon


    9. Reliability Do the things which another expects of you if those


    10. Billy fully expects to be wearing his coffee within moments

    11. The glare of flashbulbs is the last thing Billy expects as he heads down the walkway from the car park towards the main hospital entrance, and he takes a few seconds to realise that his name is being called


    12. “He has eleven, he expects us to know them all, especially the ones who have been here


    13. He hurries round to the driver's door, which is open, and seeing his car abandoned in such an out of the way spot, Billy fully expects to find ripped out wires and a gaping hole in the facia where the CD player used to be


    14. Hearing the third ring Maggie fully expects the carefully chosen words of the voicemail lady to lay down the usual barriers to direct communication, but Maggie's rattling train of thought is rudely derailed by a male voice


    15. He thinks that what happens around him is merely a reproduction of what he already right properly expects, and as you know yourself, he expects a lot


    16. Though in settling them some regard is had commonly, not only to his labour and skill, but to the trust which is reposed in him, yet they never bear any regular proportion to the capital of which he oversees the management ; and the owner of this capital, though he is thus discharged of almost all labour, still expects that his profit should bear a regular proportion to his capital


    17. He expects to maintain his family by


    18. It is commonly said that a sugar planter expects that the rum and the molasses should defray the whole expense of his cultivation, and that his sugar should be all clear profit


    19. That part which he expects is to afford him this revenue is called his capital


    20. Whatever part of his stock a man employs as a capital, he always expects it to be replaced to him with a profit

    21. He expects that in due time it is to be restored to him, and that, in the mean time, the borrower is to pay him a certain annual rent for the use of it


    22. The one often sees his money go from him, and return to him again with a profit; the other, when once he parts with it, very seldom expects to see any more of it


    23. It is in years of scarcity, however, when prices are high, that the corn merchant expects to make his principal profit


    24. The increase of revenue which the proprietor, who is always the undertaker, expects from their improvement, constitutes his profit, which, in these circumstances, is commonly very great; but this great profit cannot be made, without employing the labour of other people in clearing and cultivating the land; and the disproportion between the great extent of the land and the small number of the people, which commonly takes place in new colonies, makes it difficult for him to get this labour


    25. doing the doing that the real world expects; but I am not


    26. He expects his profit, not so much from the price of the fleece, as from that of the carcase; and the average or ordinary price of the latter must even, in many cases, make up to him whatever deficiency there may be in the average or ordinary price of the former


    27. Their employer, as he advances to them the stock of materials, tools, and wages, necessary for their employment, so he advances to himself what is necessary for his own maintenance; and this maintenance he generally proportions to the profit which he expects to make by the price of their work


    28. His chief or sovereign (for those nations have all chiefs or sovereigns) is at no sort of expense in preparing him for the field ; and when he is in it, the chance of plunder is the only pay which he either expects or requires


    29. Frequently a man of great, sometimes even a man of small fortune, is willing to purchase a thousand pounds share in India stock, merely for the influence which he expects to aquire by a vote in the court of proprietors


    30. This type of shot still allows the golfer to get all the power he or she ordinarily would with his or her seven-wood, along with the elevation he or she expects, But without the negative

    31. Place where one expects to find hospitality


    32. Your brain expects you to stick to a routine or a schedule and that’s what it prepares for


    33. I cannot tell you exactly what the deed shall be, or that would force your hand, and quite honestly, “Daltrez crumbled in pain for a moment, “I don’t think you are ready to attempt the change in your destiny that the world expects


    34. It just did not have the natural balance one expects from such weapons, so the Special Task Force used the excellent Heckler & Koch MP5 during hostage rescues


    35. ‖ 3) Developing positive attitudes by believing in themselves; that is to say, having sufficient faith in one‘s self and becoming what he or she expects ―to be


    36. It is an inherent response to immoral or inappropriate behavior contrary to what God expects from any individual or what that individual (should) otherwise perceive intuitively


    37. Addendum to the above: The greatest risk to an individual‘s spiritual well-being lies in theological assumptions seeking to reconcile what that individual understands to be (private) matters of conscience and what God (otherwise) expects from His followers


    38. Grace does not invalidate Free Will that, however expressed in accordance with God‘s (purposeful) designs, allows every individual to charter his or her own chosen course; that is to say, to decide whether to (freely) accept or reject what God expects from each of us or has to offer us if we willingly accept it with an open heart


    39. A righteous God expects righteous attitudes


    40. No one expects them to throw in the towel, however

    41. that the one asking the question expects to die


    42. We are conscious that the world expects our solution eagerly, therefore, it is worthwhile the investment


    43. how god expects us, His children, to handle a way-faring stranger


    44. “What?” She says it like she expects him to relent, but her wide eyes and ashen face suggest otherwise


    45. I should be what she expects


    46. ” She says it wildly, like she expects us to refuse


    47. That expects to be revealed in rightest times


    48. The results speaks for themselves in the book, so I expects to heal


    49. I expects my health to become even better in a year's time, so I'll


    50. What God wills and expects from His people is plainly found in the pages of the Blessed Book







































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    Synonyms for "expect"

    bear carry expect gestate have a bun in the oven anticipate await look wait ask require insist on exact count contemplate hope calculate count on

    "expect" definitions

    regard something as probable or likely


    consider obligatory; request and expect


    look forward to the probable occurrence of


    consider reasonable or due


    look forward to the birth of a child


    be pregnant with