Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a bit blue , and being blue always makes me satirical , so I expect the odd unfair jest might have escaped my lips . |
| 2 | His excuse was forgetfulness but I expect the real reason was lack of funds . |
| 3 | I expect the young novelist ( it seems unfair to give his name ) was thinking of the ‘ first , suppressed edition ’ of Les Fleurs du mal . |
| 4 | I expect the other sort have a ball — like Bella , ’ she added unkindly . |
| 5 | No , the estate agent reckons it 'll be converted into flats , so I expect the new owner 's going to want you out . |
| 6 | I expect the poor soul took the will for the deed , if you 'll excuse a weak joke . |
| 7 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 8 | That is absolute rubbish and I expect the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook to condemn it as such . |
| 9 | I expect the Scottish Transport Group , before reaching a decision on assistance , to see what it could do to encourage any separate teams to come together to mount a single bid . |
| 10 | Well I expect the whole thing needs washing does n't it ? |
| 11 | She expected the thin , whippy shaft to cut viciously into her flesh , but instead only the soft leather flap landed on her hand . |
| 12 | I would suggest to you colleagues , it 's because the , your expectations and those of the , er , the other erm , stake holders involved in the other agencies about joint planning depends on what you expect the joint structures to carry . |
| 13 | Draw a sketch plan of what you expect the finished shop to look like . |
| 14 | Or do you expect the poor beast to get off and skip round on its own for you ? ’ |
| 15 | 2 What do you expect the retail price to be ? $399 was suggested for the 4000 , I think , of which you said $240 would be your net receipts . |
| 16 | Were you expecting the royal yacht Britannia , complete with resident crew ? ’ |
| 17 | From the considerations of Chapter 15 , we expect the quantitative formulation of the relative importance of inertia and buoyancy forces to be made in terms of some form of the Froude number ( eqn ( 15.7 ) ) . |
| 18 | ‘ All in all , we expect the new Ki-Maasai Bible to serve in excess of one million people ’ , he said . |
| 19 | We expect the Islamic nation to support us in our latest struggle which we are carrying out in order to preserve the interests of the whole Islamic world . |
| 20 | We expect the final PPG Note to be compatible with existing guidance . |
| 21 | The Dutch version is selling well and we expect the German version to do even better . ’ |
| 22 | We expect the underlying pricing structure to remain rather similar when the electricity industry is privatized , but closely regulated , in the early 1990s . ) |
| 23 | ‘ We expect the dire trading situation to continue to the end of the financial year if not beyond , ’ said Haskins . |
| 24 | With no disincentives for patients to request night visits and incentives for general practitioners to visit can we expect the increased level of activity to yield health or welfare benefits or avoid costs elsewhere in the system ? |
| 25 | Indeed , how much longer can we expect the other provinces to continue carrying us ? |
| 26 | But how can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? |
| 27 | It was disappointing , though , that he seemed to be knocking the efforts of those with other aims : ‘ How can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? ’ |
| 28 | And what is true for you would be true for every other supplier : they too will supply more than the natural level if the price on their island is above what they expected the average price to be , and less if it is below . |
| 29 | Delegates indicated that the next full CODESA meeting would be held in April ( rather than in March as originally intended ) , when they expected the working groups to have made substantive progress . |
| 30 | Already in October 1953 the British defence chiefs had warned that in a world war they expected the main and first Soviet nuclear assault to be directed against the British Isles . |