Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 2 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 3 | I expected to lie awake for hours . |
| 4 | During my visit to Proctor and Gamble I expected to spend most of my time listening to smart women complain about having their key strokes counted . |
| 5 | As for sociable hours , I would not be in this trade if I expected to work nine to five , Monday to Friday . |
| 6 | I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows . |
| 7 | I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows . |
| 8 | I expect had enough sitting around wanted to get back to the bit like mews |
| 9 | ‘ But because unemployment tends to increase for a while even after growth has resumed and because some taxes , particularly corporation tax , are collected a year in arrears , I expect borrowing next year to rise further . |
| 10 | I expect to go higher really . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 13 | I expect to hear this morning from Yuli Voronpsov , the country 's deputy prime minister , that private contractors are moving into the Kremlin Hospital in Moscow . |
| 14 | Tommaso began saying , ‘ I expect to hear any day now … . ’ |
| 15 | Christie herself confessed she expected to get 10 years . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ When you score three goals away from home you expect to take three points . |
| 17 | He says it 's a great shock to everybody and not something you expect to affect such a young chap . |
| 18 | 10 Who would you expect to sell most bananas on the Monday of the following week ? |
| 19 | ‘ And how do you expect to do that ? ’ he said flatly . |
| 20 | Erm and I have to say that er I mean if if if for example this was to Well assuming we had H two policy then would n't you expect to make some cross-reference here to your ei policy M eight in your approved structure plan ? |
| 21 | ‘ Do you expect to make any more like this ? ’ |
| 22 | We expect to repeat that success . |
| 23 | With the economy moving out of recession we expect to see fewer clients cutting back and this should help reduce our terminations . |
| 24 | As its performance continue to improve , we expect to see growing private sector interest in purchasing it outright . |
| 25 | Our estate agency loss has been reduced and we expect to see some improvement in this business as the housing market responds to lower interest rates . |
| 26 | We expect to spend some of this on sponsoring students to attend the annual CPRW Youth Environment Conference in November — a very popular and rewarding part of CPRW 's programme . |
| 27 | We expect to stimulate significant improvements in NHS performance , particularly on waiting times , as a result . |
| 28 | ‘ We expect to recover 90 to 95 per cent of the trees . |
| 29 | For example , we expect to have two modes of b 2 symmetry , giving rise to two a-type bands in the IR spectrum of the gas . |
| 30 | We expect to discuss that and other matters with the new secretary general when he visits London I hope , next month . |