Example sentences of "[verb] expect [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he smiled I would have expected gold teeth . |
| 2 | And as you say , all we can do is wait , and continue to expect Doctor Morris to turn up in his own good time . |
| 3 | So when the actual rate of inflation rises to 4 per cent in Fig. 6.4 , people continue to expect zero inflation for a while and only in the long-run do they revise their expectations upwards towards 4 per cent . |
| 4 | Dot kept expecting Mrs Hollidaye to ask her to come down and stay . |
| 5 | It would have been too much of a coincidence to have expected Tony Cable to be the engineering investigator at the top of the go-team list since he had worked in Seattle for the Boeing Company before he joined AIB ( the ‘ Branch ’ , as it is known by its members ) and his personal knowledge of that company 's products is obviously substantial . |
| 6 | The second question is the second certainly made by the Noble Earl was that the Department of Transport were urgently examining the situation , I trust with the Home Office at the same time and I would suggest that we might in fact discuss this matter if I might make er if I might make this suggestion to the Noble Earl , between now and the report stage , so that this matter can be clarified but I am sure that he will understand that we would not in fact be er feel able to erm ignore this issue er in the period between the beginning of the committee stage today and the third reading of this Bill , we do expect Government amendments to be introduced . |
| 7 | No one , of course , had expected Father Kendrick to stay . |
| 8 | Many observers had expected Rafeeuddin Ahmed , the UN Under-Secretary-General responsible for Cambodia since 1982 , to take charge of the operation . |
| 9 | Finubar had expected mud huts and primitive savages . |
| 10 | Financial markets had expected Mr Lawson to give a clear signal on when the pound will enter the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System in a speech to the City at the Mansion House next Thursday . |
| 11 | Western diplomats had expected Mr Christopher to raise the issue of Syria 's tiny Jewish community , which was allowed to immigrate for much of last year , until Syria stopped granting exit visas . |
| 12 | The announcement came as a shock because they and other political observers had expected Mr Ben Ali to announce moves towards liberalisation in a speech he gave yesterday marking the second anniversary of his coming to power . |
| 13 | Tainted by the worst recession in 60 years , a record 1.05 million people out of work and a perception that Labor was fatigued after ten years in office , few had expected Mr Keating to scrape in . |
| 14 | ‘ I had expected Mr Beckenham would have been in contact with you at least , ma'am , ’ he said with a frown . |
| 15 | Until recently most analysts had expected house prices to begin to recover in early 1991 . |
| 16 | ( In last week 's Unigram issue we said to expect price reductions of around 40% . |