Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected blue murder but , to my delight , he was very proud . ’ |
| 2 | I expected ecological debate , the odd clash over vegetarianism and a hint of hippiness . |
| 3 | I expected new information . |
| 4 | At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet . |
| 5 | This is version one of what promises to be one of the leading packages in this field , and , given that that is the case , I expect future versions to add greatly to its functionality . |
| 6 | In other words , Dr Blake , I expect one-hundred-per-cent support from every member of this team . ’ |
| 7 | 3.45:NOT many in with a chance here and I expect recent Fakenham scorer Love Anew and SKIPPING TIM to fight out the finish . |
| 8 | I expect amazing revelations — a scoop ! ’ |
| 9 | I expect young people of today would rate the fair rides of the early 1920 's quite tame affairs . |
| 10 | ‘ I expect underlying inflation to be 3.75 per cent at the end of this year , close to the top of its target range . |
| 11 | If I give a hitcher a lift I expect social interaction and ca n't abide the ones that use me like a bus service , mute to the point of rudeness . |
| 12 | Anyway , why should n't I expect high standards from them ? |
| 13 | When you plug in a Ricky you expect certain things — not too much power but tons of friendly jangle and loads of character . |
| 14 | Hills cut him from 10-1 to 6-1 , prompting their representative , Don Payne , to comment : ‘ You expect big market moves before races like this , but I 've never seen anything on this scale . ’ |
| 15 | If you expect heavy use of Offline ( which will be particularly the case if you are not using the Module Version Deletion facility ) , you should probably increase this parameter before running CREFDL . |
| 16 | Obviously cold injury is far more common when would you expect cold injury to be common ? |
| 17 | Using the information above , for what purposes would you expect particular lorries and cars to be travelling on the M8 , either way between Glasgow and Livingston ? |
| 18 | How dare she expect up-to-the-minute information when she had decided to remove herself from the scene ? |
| 19 | We expect great things of you . ’ |
| 20 | We must start to define where we expect genuine refugees to come from . |
| 21 | But because a given change in performance has less effect on fitness later in life , we expect deleterious mutations to cause a greater drop in fertility and survival probability later in life , assuming the same mutation rate for each age . |
| 22 | ‘ Under the new arrangements we have forecast total ERDF receipts in Scotland of £120 million and , on past experience , we expect local authorities to obtain around £75 million , ’ Mr Lang said . |
| 23 | We expect British Rail to give urgent consideration to the timing of the placement of that order . |
| 24 | We expect sponsored MPs to be present at important votes , and particularly on these occasions when our members are likely to be infect affected . |
| 25 | ‘ We expect sweeping changes at IBM to be announced shortly and we believe that if possible , IBM will introduce changes in equity ownership , ’ Merrill Lynch & Co analyst Dan Mandresh told investment clients in a report . |
| 26 | Every year , we expect public service standards to be ratcheted up . |
| 27 | Where there are so many herbivorous animals , we expect commensurate carnivores . |
| 28 | What we will be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that customers can see before they enter into the transaction and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic . |
| 29 | No , what we would be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that the customers can see before they enter into the transaction , and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic . |
| 30 | And without this capacity how can we expect large scale mainframe users to down-size or right-size into open systems . |