Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I expected the Polynesians there to be just as subject to the ailments of the flesh as anywhere else in the world — especially polio — otherwise what would they need a doctor for ? |
2 | But I expect no favours from Graham when it comes to team selection and I know they wo n't be offered . |
3 | Josh does n't have much of an appetite at present , but I expect the boys will be hungry when they get home from school . ’ |
4 | Erm yeah I expect the answers will be at the back . |
5 | I expect the improvements in services that Londoners should see in the coming years to speak for themselves , but there is no room for complacency . |
6 | I expect the conditions in some of the houses you went into were , were er pretty poor . |
7 | The Economist circulation is now five hundred and twenty five thousand each week , and although their er year is out of sync with ours , I expect the profits for the year to be at or near record levels once again . |
8 | Wednesday is Fantasy day in the Torygraph so I expect the details to be in there again next week , as nothing more will have happened by then fantasy-wise cos there are no Premiership games . |
9 | ‘ I expect the humans are wondering who 's causing all this trouble . ’ |
10 | Ask what do I expect the nurses to do at the end of the workshop . |
11 | She expected no favours from Ace , and he would be the last to give her any as far as her job was concerned . |
12 | As she expected the children had vanished perhaps into the trees . |
13 | You expect the servants to nick the silver , not the guests . ’ |
14 | You expect the attendants to look like Peter Cushing . |
15 | This is a meandering , innocent instrumental structured so that , at any moment , you expect the vocals to drop in and the ‘ song ’ -proper to begin , but you know it never needs to . |
16 | What changes would you expect the farmers to make if ( i ) the price of milk fell considerably , ( ii ) the EEC guaranteed price for beef fell sharply ? |
17 | She was puzzled for some moments as to the source of the smell , so little did she expect the brothers would be so dirty . |
18 | Likewise , she expects the children to operate intuitively in their make-believe , but she believes the intuition can be a refined instrument , accompanied by a high degree of awareness , at its best , bringing about reflection on what one experiences even as one experiences it . |
19 | As we look in closer to the centre , we expect the stars to be more closely packed together , and in this central pan of IRS 16 the infrared radiation comes from thousands of ordinary stars packed into a region only a hundred times larger than the Solar System . |
20 | Telnitz is some way ahead of you ; we expect the forces there to take the initial impact of the assault . ’ |
21 | We expect the authorities to come up with imaginative schemes , designed to tackle specific local crime problems , such as kerb crawling , mugging and burglary . |
22 | We expect the findings the final findings to be in the Autumn of this year now . |
23 | We expect the away-days to be 13 October and 8 December 1990 , and 19 January and 16 March 1991 . |
24 | They are , in part , inevitable in writing , especially when the writer is thinking hard , and may be missed when the piece is proof-read , because we expect the words to be correct , and read them as though they were . |
25 | Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers ; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumber carnivores . |
26 | Nor could we expect the adherents of each approach to treat any anomaly as a reason for rejecting it . |
27 | And what do we expect the tenants on another sink estate to do when their toilets overflow , spewing sewage from the pipes outside over their bathroom floors ? |
28 | They expected the angels to come down and join battle with them — ‘ the sons of light ’ — against their enemies — ‘ the sons of darkness ’ — and to give them victory over all other peoples . |
29 | It was n't New York ; it was n't the Florida Keys , but they expected the standards of those places . |
30 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |