Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] expected [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 2 | Not that I expected any . |
| 3 | Not , in truth , that she expected any , important or otherwise , but it would have made a difference to the day . |
| 4 | ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name . |
| 5 | erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem . |
| 6 | Anyway , at Stevenage Town Hall we told Ralph that we expected some money for these . |
| 7 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
| 8 | He simply stood still saying nothing until the cries died away , and then told them what they were waiting for , and that he expected little more fighting . |
| 9 | Mr Lutz Stavenhagen said that he expected 11 out of the 12 EC leaders in Strasbourg to endorse the proposal — a reference to the renewed isolation of Mrs Thatcher over the issue . |
| 10 | After a meeting with umpires Steve Randell and Terry Prue , Subba Row said in a statement that he expected all players to adhere to proper standards of behaviour . |
| 11 | Bolger took office on Oct. 28 and announced his new 18-member Cabinet on Nov. 1 , using the occasion to stress that he expected all Ministers to observe the tradition of collective responsibility . |
| 12 | In a budget report presented in mid-1990 , the Minister of Finance , Kinza Clodumar , said that he expected that phosphate royalties would drop by A$10,000,000 from the 1989-90 figure of A$25,000,000 . |
| 13 | Sir Peter Holmes , Shell 's chairman who admitted that he was ‘ astonished ’ to discover that the irregularities had occurred through an associate company failing to follow strict rules against speculative dealing , said that he expected any further exposure to be limited to a £65 million charge which the company would take in its accounts for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 14 | He says that he expected more mud slinging ; Dowty has been very gentlemanly so far . |
| 15 | Hundreds of the hostel residents had been questioned , the Commissioner said ; six had been arrested , and he expected further arrests following the result of forensic tests of bloodstained weapons found at the hostel . |
| 16 | If he expected this to frighten Sir John he succeeded . |
| 17 | If he expected any other price level he would not be acting rationally since he would not be forming his expectation of the price level in line with the process determining it ; that is , the aggregate supply and demand process depicted in figure 4.4 . |
| 18 | She pledged that the Government would safeguard those that did not opt for trust status , but she expected this to be a minority . |
| 19 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 20 | I would prefer to see a straight Rocky-Strachan swap ( as I expected last year ) but I guess the wee man is still playing to well for this . |
| 21 | It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated . |