Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] expect [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you join the Royal Air Force you expect to work on some of the world 's deadliest aircraft , Jaguar Fighters , and harriers , but there 's another side to aviation . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you finished ? ’ they ask as you lie gasping , and when they switch on the light you expect to see a sign over the bed , NOW WASH YOUR HANDS . |
| 3 | In the near future we expect to recruit an Asia Pacific representative who will enable us to expand further in this region . |
| 4 | and looking from my window I expect to see |
| 5 | When I was finally allowed up and I went back to my own home I expected to forget you . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ When you score three goals away from home you expect to take three points . |
| 7 | We need not inquire what benefit he expected to derive . |
| 8 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 9 | At any moment she expected to hear his voice behind her , calling her back . |
| 10 | Because social anthropologists take it for granted ( sometimes mistakenly ) that the distinction between true-kin and affines is of absolutely central importance they expect to find that the behaviour that is appropriate between affines will be a kind of coded inversion of the behaviour that is appropriate between true-kin . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Unix International is being very secretive about an announcement it expects to make this week that it hopes will propel the industry further along the path of unity . |
| 12 | This enables the exporter to price the contract to reflect the amount of Sterling he expects to receive . |
| 13 | All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records . |
| 14 | Bernard was at the least reckoning an ambitious yeoman , the kind we expect to find purchasing land , like the Chibnalls of Sherington , not selling — unless , of course , he had done so in order to finance the purchase of his lease , or to stock the new and very much bigger farm ; but this is pure speculation . |
| 15 | With the economy moving out of recession we expect to see fewer clients cutting back and this should help reduce our terminations . |
| 16 | Virginia Bottomley is a very nice woman : soft-spoken and yet forceful , articulate and obviously clever , and the last person I expected to talk to about my job . |
| 17 | The last person I expected to come across was you . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When the dark blue sidecar , a red coat-of-arms on its tailboard and a grey horse between its shafts , came swirling towards her , iron-tyred wheels crunching merrily along , with the noble sound of a horse 's well-shod feet , the very last person she expected to see was Anderson . |
| 20 | Yes , thought Berdichev ; but I 'm the last person you expected to see up here today . |
| 21 | Any minute she expected to feel his hand on her breast . |
| 22 | There was no sign of a studio and for a minute she expected to find that Alain had been merely frightening her — some hidden cruelty to make her feel uncomfortable , another chance to embarrass her . |
| 23 | Firms base their production plans for period t on the price they expect to prevail in t , this expectation being formed , as before , in the light of information available at the end of period t - 1 . |
| 24 | He gave the city not eighty or so acres of ground , but more like two hundred and twenty , he burned to have the funds to take up lovingly every acre of those two hundred and twenty , and tenderly brush away the dust of centuries from every artifact he expected to recover ; and his expectations were high . |
| 25 | This morning they expect to hear if they 'll be offered professional terms . |
| 26 | Instead of the evil-looking robber they expected to see , the two ladies found only a pale , thin child , lying peacefully asleep . |
| 27 | They will be different in terms of the sort of interaction they expect to have with computer depending on whether they 're data entry people or management users and maybe some of our users are people in the street , our customers er who who will increasingly become users of systems themselves . |
| 28 | Many large companies , including Merrill Lynch , Shearson Lehman , and Bear Stearns , have allowed employees to take at least part of the bonus money they expect to earn before December 31 . |
| 29 | That £150 million will be reduced after the liquidators have handed over the money they expect to recover ( at least £60 mil lion ) and possibly more if other claims are pursued by the DTI . |
| 30 | Er when we have erm when you come down for , you know if if if we decide that this is for you , er when you come down for a training course they expect to see a car . |