Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With these memories , I expected Galway City , my destination , to be a hopeless , broken-down kind of place . |
| 2 | Frankly , I expected Philippa Lowthorpe 's film about love among the over-65s to come out like a cross between Esther Rantzen at her drippiest and Coronation Street at its dopiest . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect Mrs Jourdelay is familiar with the quotation , ’ Mr Hobbs said . |
| 4 | I expect Winifred Shalcross was right , however strange you may think it , when she said I was overconscientious . |
| 5 | I expect Dr Roberts will put Sandra on the pill . ’ |
| 6 | But I expect Miss Prentisse told you about it . |
| 7 | " I expect Mr. Preston 's secretary is still at lunch , " Sara said . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I expect Mr Gajdusek will give you time off to compensate , ’ she suggested , holding down more remarks , though in actual fact it was questions which sprang to her lips : where had Mr Gajdusek gone and how long would he be away ? |
| 9 | I expect Mr Rushton will come and make dinner for you both tonight . ’ |
| 10 | I expect Mr Hacker … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I expect Mr Morgan is pulling out all Iris stops . ’ |
| 12 | Welll Cabinet 's are always under strain it 's in the nature of poltics , but I expect John Patten to be back at work within the course of this month , he 's just gone on holidasy when he returns he 's going back to the office . |
| 13 | I expect Alice Fell — the real one — thought him a pompous busybody , but she was probably used to being ordered about by ‘ men of ardent humanity ’ . ) |
| 14 | All the preparations , all the propaganda , had led them to expect Herr Hitler to start it with a bang , an airborne cataclysm , probably with fire and with deadly gas . |
| 15 | ‘ What the hell have you been up to ? ’ she demanded , glancing down the road as if she expected Herbie Connors to appear on his bike . |
| 16 | Well how do you expect Bernard results if you do n't tell him which results are decent ? |
| 17 | Wh-when do you expect Mr Marshall back ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ — so how would you expect Harriet Shakespeare to feel now ? ’ |
| 19 | Do you expect Madame Fleur to make twelve dresses in as many hours ? |
| 20 | We expected Michael Foot , Roy Jenkins and Tony Wedgwood Benn to stand , but when Denis Healey and Tony Crosland also announced they were candidates , my team calculated that I would lose a number of votes to them , for the three of us were close in our thinking and attitudes . |
| 21 | The Economist Intelligence Unit concluded in its World Commodity Outlook 1989 : ‘ Short of climatic intervention — to which tea is less vulnerable than most other major crops — a continuation of the downtrend seems unavoidable : we expect London auction prices to average £1/kg , or even less , in 1989 . ’ |
| 22 | But we expect Alex Ferguson to try again for-Stuart Pearce at Forest , perhaps offering Neil Webb in part-exchange . |
| 23 | We expect BP Exploration 's production to remain broadly at 1992 's level for the next few years and then to rise after 1995 . |
| 24 | The Franks were also worried about how ‘ tough ’ Carter appeared — before they toured with the duo they expected Jim Bob and Fruitbat to beat them up . |
| 25 | The war now being effectively over , they expected Richard Baxter to return to them . |
| 26 | Very often they expect UK PROs to use the same photographs in their own press campaigns . |
| 27 | UN peacekeepers in Cambodia said they expect Khmer Rouge guerrillas to attack polling stations in the general election starting on May 23rd . |
| 28 | HOT-BLOODED men beating a path to the Liverpool Playhouse for the return of the Raving Beauties are in for a shock if they expect Paula Wilcox to reveal all in the adults only show . |
| 29 | Premier League chairmen struck a note of compromise rather than confrontation in London yesterday and they expect Mr Taylor to respond . |
| 30 | He expected William Temple to back Henson and was grieved to find that his hero was weak because he refused to stand up and fight . |