Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] expect [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 2 | " Why , " he thought , " in this country it is uncommon to see even one elephant ; how can I ever expect to find a hundred ? " |
| 3 | Whenever I meet with a Sister in print , I always expect to hear that Corydon has prov 'd false ; or that Sylvia ‘ s cruel Parents have had prudence enough to keep two mad People from playing the Fool together , for Life . |
| 4 | ‘ I still expect to have a substantial interest in the day-to-day running of the club and my assistant Lil Fuccillo will be appointed manager . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't think I really expected to see it , but when I did it amused me to follow you , and when you stopped in Wexford it was idle curiosity that prompted my behaviour , nothing else . ’ |
| 6 | Inevitably I end up with three different files , one showing the worst case scenario , one showing what I really expect to happen , and one showing the absolute best I could ever hope for . |
| 7 | I really expect to get back in three or four days and I will try and hang on to the holiday . |
| 8 | ‘ I fully expected to see a hangar out there and there was n't one ’ , lamented Kermit as we looked through the many pictures he had brought with him to the Reno Air Races . |
| 9 | I have worked for the Health Service for twenty six years and plan to carry on doing so and I fully expect to finish my work in the Health Service where it 's still in Government hands . |
| 10 | ‘ If I get all the praise when we 're winning , then I fully expect to take all the criticism when we 're losing . |
| 11 | For decades yet , whether it be in Newcastle , London , Los Angeles , Sydney or wherever , I fully expect to see , or hear of , his rising from the audience at the end of someone 's lecture with ‘ I just happen to have this slide here , which illustrates … |
| 12 | I do hope your aunt is n't ill again , I quite expected to find her up , her card , you know , her card indicated she was ready for callers again . ’ |
| 13 | I almost expected to find it so . ’ |
| 14 | I never expected to say that of a work by Howard Brenton . |
| 15 | ‘ I never expected to see you — or anyone else — up here this morning , ’ Seb admitted honestly as he sat down at the kitchen table . |
| 16 | I 'd never had other children of my own and somehow she seemed very precious just then , but I never expected to see her . |
| 17 | I never expected to do so well , and still ca n't believe it . ’ |
| 18 | I may have the idea that makes me start putting the brush strokes down , but at some point the canvas will take on a life of its own and lead me off in a direction I never expected to go . |
| 19 | So er I never expected to have it like that . |
| 20 | I never expected to feel like this again , she thought . |
| 21 | ‘ But I never expected to end up on TV . ’ |
| 22 | I never expected to start a game , ’ he said . |
| 23 | LIVING in England , I never expect to get an architectural thrill when I go to a concert or the theatre . |
| 24 | I never expect to meet a decent man but you take first prize as a pig . ’ |
| 25 | I swung majestically from the very end of the crux traverse on Gimmer Crag 's Kipling Groove , in from of an audience I half expected to hold up marks for style , and had to allow my younger and less experienced partner to show me how it should be done . |
| 26 | As I look , I half expect to see the air above the building turbulent and violent with the compressed energy of the pain and anger held there . |
| 27 | I half expect to see Gemma and her friends . |
| 28 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 29 | There were heavy snowfalls in areas which never expect to see such wintry conditions . |
| 30 | Zakrewski confirmed that he did expect the legislation to hurt its Polish acquisition , DHI , which currently expects to turn over $15m in the market this year , and added ‘ The result will be that there will be some preferred companies who have been doing assembly that will be supported , and they will grow and make a huge amount of money by reselling imports , not by assembling ; it 's a scandal . |