Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] expect [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devoy hinted that she expected Jackman to be her successor , by adding : ‘ She can have it [ the title ] after me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Labour will introduce a new Railway Act that will lay down in law the broad policy objectives that we expect BR to meet , ’ he told the Centre for Local Economic Strategies in Sheffield . |
| 3 | DEC and Microsoft said that they expect NT-on-Alpha , which they are jointly engineering , to be a high-volume , multi-sourced platform for users , software developers , systems designers and chip manufacturers — exactly the same thing ACE was supposed to be . |
| 4 | Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 . |
| 5 | In a statement issued on March 28 the Mongolian Foreign Ministry announced that it expected Russia to abide by a March 1990 Soviet-Mongolian agreement which stipulated that all Soviet troops would withdraw from Mongolia by Aug. 30 , 1992 [ see p. 37318 ] . |
| 6 | It added that it expected Denmark 's gross domestic product to grow by 2.25 per cent in 1992 , up from 2 per cent in 1991 . |
| 7 | Whenever we went there , Salvo and I expected Hasan 's ghost to leap out of the darkness and slit our throats with his dagger . |
| 8 | ‘ The vicar and his wife , of course , ’ she was saying , ‘ and I expect Penelope will come too . |
| 9 | ‘ Jim Mangold will be feeding them now , ’ said Daisy Pettigrew comfortingly , ‘ and I expect Faustina will be getting her share . |
| 10 | Well I think we 'd better leave them just to do what they like , cos I expect Gwen wants to get on with her dinner now . |
| 11 | ‘ What the hell have you been up to ? ’ she demanded , glancing down the road as if she expected Herbie Connors to appear on his bike . |
| 12 | That 's how much the hard-up south Londoners need to maintain their cashflow , and they expect Liverpool , Blackburn and Leeds to lead the bidding . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't earn any money and they expect Scott to pay . |
| 14 | Premier League chairmen struck a note of compromise rather than confrontation in London yesterday and they expect Mr Taylor to respond . |
| 15 | HOT-BLOODED men beating a path to the Liverpool Playhouse for the return of the Raving Beauties are in for a shock if they expect Paula Wilcox to reveal all in the adults only show . |
| 16 | The sergeant thought Blanche would be tired after the tension of the previous hour or two , and he expected Blanche to sit at her desk quietly for a few minutes . |
| 17 | The brunt of the company 's restructuring , which has lead to 18,000 layoffs in two years ( a cut of close to 30% ) , says Mr De Benedetti , is now over and he expects Olivetti to return to profit in 1994 . |
| 18 | Intel Corp says it will ship 60 versions of the 80486 this year , with clock speeds ranging from 25MHz to 100MHz , senior vice-president Paul Otellini told the Hambrecht & Quist conference in San Francisco : ‘ We now have the capacity to build some 30m 80486s in 1993 , ’ Otellini said , and he expects Intel to sell some 100m 80486 chips after 1993 ; Intel expects to spend some $900m on research and development this year , up from $780m in 1992 , he declared , and would do 1m Pentiums in 1994 . |
| 19 | He looked as if he expected Wexford to hinder him , but Wexford said nothing . |
| 20 | How this applies to the crew as well I do n't know but I expect Vic 's got some theory to cover it . |
| 21 | ‘ But I expect Thorkel and Hlodver and Odalric to stay where they are and look after my interests until I tell them otherwise . ’ |
| 22 | But I expect Miss Prentisse told you about it . |
| 23 | ‘ But I expect Elinor feels that as your friend is eighty-seven , she probably should n't be travelling alone . ’ |
| 24 | Welll Cabinet 's are always under strain it 's in the nature of poltics , but I expect John Patten to be back at work within the course of this month , he 's just gone on holidasy when he returns he 's going back to the office . |
| 25 | But we expect Alex Ferguson to try again for-Stuart Pearce at Forest , perhaps offering Neil Webb in part-exchange . |
| 26 | But he expects Wilson Bowden to build and sell 1,650 homes this year , an increase of 30 per cent on 1991 and 1992 . |
| 27 | Mountain View , California-based Parallan Computer Inc says it expects its shipments of manufactured products to IBM Corp to fall , because it expects IBM to assume manufacturing responsibilities for the PS/2 Server 295 this year — the jump in its first quarter sales ( see page five ) was primarily down to increased ships to IBM , it said . |
| 28 | She paused as though she expected Marion to say something . |