Example sentences of "[pron] expect [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
2 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
3 | I expected to lie awake for hours . |
4 | During my visit to Proctor and Gamble I expected to spend most of my time listening to smart women complain about having their key strokes counted . |
5 | As for sociable hours , I would not be in this trade if I expected to work nine to five , Monday to Friday . |
6 | I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows . |
7 | I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows . |
8 | I expect had enough sitting around wanted to get back to the bit like mews |
9 | ‘ But because unemployment tends to increase for a while even after growth has resumed and because some taxes , particularly corporation tax , are collected a year in arrears , I expect borrowing next year to rise further . |
10 | I expect to go higher really . |
11 | Well , you 'll just have to tell them that it 's missing but when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect to get all the pieces that I 've paid for and I 've already paid for mine , so this I 'll take . |
12 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
13 | I expect to hear this morning from Yuli Voronpsov , the country 's deputy prime minister , that private contractors are moving into the Kremlin Hospital in Moscow . |
14 | Tommaso began saying , ‘ I expect to hear any day now … . ’ |
15 | The same can not be said at Ford , which expects to cut 2,000 more white-collar jobs on top of yesterday 's 1,180 . |
16 | SCO hopes the new programme will help it focus on three markets — retail , finance and government — and its expects to sell 1,500 developers kits there in its first year — between 400 — 500 of them in Europe . |
17 | Christie herself confessed she expected to get 10 years . |
18 | He said : ‘ When you score three goals away from home you expect to take three points . |
19 | He says it 's a great shock to everybody and not something you expect to affect such a young chap . |
20 | For those students who expect to graduate this year , the prospects for employment seem no better than last , with around 12 per cent of last year 's crop still without jobs nine months after graduating . |
21 | The five-year MEng honours degree course is for particularly able students who expect to assume responsible positions in industry immediately after graduation . |
22 | 10 Who would you expect to sell most bananas on the Monday of the following week ? |
23 | ‘ And how do you expect to do that ? ’ he said flatly . |
24 | Erm and I have to say that er I mean if if if for example this was to Well assuming we had H two policy then would n't you expect to make some cross-reference here to your ei policy M eight in your approved structure plan ? |
25 | ‘ Do you expect to make any more like this ? ’ |
26 | This is not to say that such courses would not also encourage an awareness of wider theoretical implications or the kind of appraisal I have associated with education , but this would be more in the manner of a long-term investment rather than something expected to yield immediate returns , something which might influence attitude rather than instigate action . |
27 | We expect to repeat that success . |
28 | With the economy moving out of recession we expect to see fewer clients cutting back and this should help reduce our terminations . |
29 | As its performance continue to improve , we expect to see growing private sector interest in purchasing it outright . |
30 | Our estate agency loss has been reduced and we expect to see some improvement in this business as the housing market responds to lower interest rates . |