Example sentences of "[conj] expect [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shot people in the back and expected nothing less for himself . |
| 2 | He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour . |
| 3 | Name the American , a former Wimbledon Champion , new retired from competitive play and expecting her first child , who is one of the company 's longest serving contract players ? |
| 4 | ‘ She is 12-years-old now and expecting her first foal . |
| 5 | Michele is 22 and expecting her fifth baby — her children have been fathered by two different men . |
| 6 | ANNIE Lennox announced last Monday that she was happily pregnant and expecting her second child in the New Year . |
| 7 | Dawn Winterhalder was 32 and expecting her fourth child when she developed hydramnios — excess fluid in the womb — and her gynaecologist became seriously concerned about the baby 's health . |
| 8 | He sat back in his chair , with an air of waiting , and expecting something more to the point . |
| 9 | Significantly , it says there has been slowing down of sales of its Sparc server systems over the last few months , and expects its European turnover for the coming year to remain flat at $15m . |
| 10 | Eric Cador , marketing centre director for Hewlett-Packard Co 's personal computer division in Grenoble , France is a contrarian and expects his own company to ship 2.4 to 2.5 times as many Vectras in Europe in the current quarter as it did a year earlier and he forecasts that revenue will double from the year-ago level . |