Example sentences of "[pron] expect [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected Father to chase me , but when I reached the corner and looked back he was just standing there talking to the thin man . |
| 2 | I expect communication to improve as a result of this survey … |
| 3 | I expect communication to improve as a result of this survey . |
| 4 | You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT . |
| 5 | Ruby had said she would be at the office again next morning by which time she expected Rain to have found something more profitable for her than keys . |
| 6 | Airships are not all that easily shot down , a disconcerting fact to pilots in the First World War who expected tracer to ignite hydrogen gas at once . |
| 7 | You expect fire to come out of the back of his ball when he hits it , but his ball 's flight is no different to mine . |
| 8 | You expect fire to come out of the back of his ball when he hits it , but his ball 's flight is no different to mine . |
| 9 | Yeah so They say what properties do you expect lithium to have , you 'll have a look at it and you 'll say well it 's sort of going to be the same as sodium and potassium , rally . |
| 10 | Within the European time zone we expect competition to intensify with the creation of a single EC capital market and the possible advent of a single currency , the ECU . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We expect GDP to grow by 1.25 per cent this year , with the recovery gathering pace . |
| 13 | So when can we expect Bill to ditch comedy for good and go all-out rock on us ? |
| 14 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | DSP seems a particularly important topic since it represents the doorway between the way that people do things and the tasks which they expect electronics to do . |
| 17 | They expect pleasure to cost money . |
| 18 | Though they are predicting that the German economy will shrink for the year , they expect growth to resume in the fourth quarter . |
| 19 | Transport minister Roger Freeman said yesterday he expected legislation to begin in the new year and be complete by October . |
| 20 | The article says : ’ Mr. Major disagreed with the delegation 's gloomy forecast of when the recovery in construction would begin , saying he expected industry to emerge from recession in the middle of next year . ’ |
| 21 | He expected Bunny to stay behind , but he was the first out of the door . |
| 22 | Could he expect Nebamun to do it for him ? |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects work to commence on upgrading the A12 Chelmsford bypass from a two-lane to a three-lane road . |
| 24 | On the PowerPC effort , Mace says the initial part will come in with around 30% less power than the 88000 , though he expects performance to converge over time . |
| 25 | It expects profitability to remain under pressure , despite recent restructuring actions aimed at achieving $50m in annual cost savings . |