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Example sentences for "expected from"

  • Insult and obstinacy is all that can be expected from them.

  • To see the plantation of Mr. Butler on an island opposite that town, and to meet a day sooner the letters which I expected from you.

  • More than this cannot fitly be expected from me; and, especially, it cannot be reasonably expected that I shall enter into any explanation upon a basis so vague as that you have adopted.

  • A more precise answer could not, perhaps, be expected from a minister.

  • What politeness can be expected from such a man?

  • Mr. Webster took the view of this nomination which might have been expected from a veteran statesman and a civilian of forty years' experience in the service of the country.

  • It was not said that it had failed to do all that had been hoped or expected from it in regard to the currency.

  • The best results may be expected from them.

  • No other course ought to be expected from her, till this has failed.

  • His brother, as possessor of Tretton Park, would be able to do much more for him than could be expected from a professional man working for his bread.

  • No doubt; Prodgers says that you've shown more anxiety than was to be expected from a mere acquaintance.

  • Sir Thomas, no doubt, felt that in doing so Sir Magnus did all that could be expected from him.

  • Mr. Taylor says--"The manuscripts of Oldys were not so many as might be expected from so indefatigable a writer.

  • Once disappointed of the assistance he expected from a writer of talents, he was fain to put up with one he was ashamed of; but warily stipulated on very singular terms.

  • Such a society might, perhaps, without much difficulty, be collected; but that it would produce what is expected from it, may be doubted.

  • What more can be expected from a life spent in ostentatious contempt of regularity, and ended, before the abilities of many other men began to be displayed[69]?

  • The profits that may be expected from good, well-managed estates.

  • What seems to be expected from him by society forms a standard which he may fall below, but which he will seldom rise above.

  • This is one of those refinements which, in practice, has an effect the reverse of what is expected from it in theory.

  • A scruple of this kind would deprive us of one of the principal advantages to be expected from union, and can only flow from a misapprehension of the nature of the provision itself.

  • We were only reimbursed what, in your opinion, we had advanced beyond our proportion, or beyond what might reasonably be expected from us; and it was a very small part of what we spent.

  • Conscience, the only remaining tie is known to be inadequate in individuals: In large numbers, little is to be expected from it.

  • Besides, the probable Revenue to be expected from the S.

  • If his works were sometimes unfinished, accuracy cannot reasonably be expected from a man oppressed with want, which he has no hope of relieving but by a speedy publication.

  • And Oldmixon delights to tell of some alderman of London that he had more money than the exiled princes; but that which might be expected from Milton's savageness, or Oldmixon's meanness, was not suitable to the delicacy of Addison.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    assuring them; common ancestor; everything that; expected every; expected from; eyed young; eyes upon; feathers white; first base; given volume; good farming; good specimen; great feast; his heart; its base; like spots; open circuit; small ball; this means; though less; though probably; various degrees; vital spot