Here's an absolutely wild and extremely common transitive verb that I have seen very little attention paid to in vocabulary books or vocabulary lists, or grammar books.
Do a Google search on "come to expect". You'll be surprised what you find.
Our first instance of it in the headlines is here, in an important health article:
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“Many of the things that are routinely done are things that patients have come to expect and doctors have routinely ordered,” said Dr. Christine Cassel, president and CEO of the ABIM Foundation.
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SOUNDING BOARD: We've come to expect certain negative behavior
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And here's an interesting twist on the expression "(to) come to expect" in a video from Vanderbilt Hospital:
We've Come To Expect the Unexpected: Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
What do you think it means?
Definition #13 of the Oxford Learner's Dictionary defines it as:
Definition #13 of the Oxford Learner's Dictionary defines it as:
Follow the link (above) and look at some other really good examples of this word in context.
And then come up with a few sentences and uses of your own.
For example, what have you come to expect from politicians?
What have you come to expect from life?
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And then come up with a few sentences and uses of your own.
For example, what have you come to expect from politicians?
What have you come to expect from life?
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