Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They come from the roughest jails where they expect trouble all the time . |
| 2 | I do not mean by this that I expect managers to cry , or to clasp one another like footballers after a goal has been won . |
| 3 | Auntie Nellie only came to visit on special occasions so I expect Dad must have written to invite her to the wedding . |
| 4 | His share was a good quarter of the capital provided for the voyage , so I expect returns . ’ |
| 5 | Again , I urge the House to consider the fact that we expect inspections of individual schools to take place on a four to five-yearly basis . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Fundamentalists believe so totally in the reality of their message and of the Jesus they preach that they expect lives to be touched and changed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Going from there to , and that 's a sort of history of where things have happened over the previous four mon four months , to expectations about output this is the first survey since the recession began in which all regions , mainland regions of the U K say that they expect output to increase over the coming four months . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A Gallup poll of businessmen has revealed that they expect interest rates to be 1.6 per cent higher under Labour . |
| 12 | What is more , they are probably paying for their own lessons , so they expect results . |
| 13 | I say borrow but the cash was never refunded and I expect Dad thought it was a cheap way to get rid of him . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've lost four clients out of a total of 1,800 and I expect others will drift away , but we picked up a new client just this morning . ’ |
| 15 | Our business is budgeted to expand by 25 per cent in 1993 and I expect trading conditions to improve as buyers appreciate current values and the affordability of our new homes . |
| 16 | ‘ The vicar and his wife , of course , ’ she was saying , ‘ and I expect Penelope will come too . |
| 17 | ‘ Lee Clark certainly has the potential to score a lot of goals and I expect people like Brian Kilcline to hit some from set pieces . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Jim Mangold will be feeding them now , ’ said Daisy Pettigrew comfortingly , ‘ and I expect Faustina will be getting her share . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And we expect others to keep coming forward . ’ |
| 22 | We impose heavy loads on those with both brain and brawn , and we expect saintliness from them as well . |
| 23 | Hunting may well become outlawed but we are deluding ourselves if we expect angling to follow in the foreseeable future although I am sure it will also go in future decades . |
| 24 | If we expect failure , we need n't take risks . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | West will again have Paul Pook at lock , with Peter Robinson in the back row , and they expect winger Dave Cooke to have recovered from an injury he suffered while guesting for Middlesbrough last Saturday . |
| 27 | Yet customers walk through an entrance with 24ft stone pillars to reach our bar and they expect prices to be high in such an environment . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't earn any money and they expect Scott to pay . |
| 29 | Premier League chairmen struck a note of compromise rather than confrontation in London yesterday and they expect Mr Taylor to respond . |
| 30 | 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 . |