Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] expect [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed she expected an answer , so I gave it . |
| 2 | I 've had a word with him on the phone , and told him to expect a call from you . |
| 3 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 4 | Earlier this month SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander , told us to expect a version of its Unix operating system to feature on the PowerPC RISC ( CI No 2,124 ) . |
| 5 | Earlier this month SunSoft Inc president , Ed Zander , told us to expect a version of its Unix operating system to feature on the PowerPC RISC ( UX No 426 ) . |
| 6 | It seemed impossible he would escape detection , and with each yard he covered he expected the alarm to be raised from within the house . |
| 7 | ‘ Interesting , ’ she said , when she realised he expected a comment . |
| 8 | Richardson admitted he expected the booing . |
| 9 | ‘ Did you expect a present , Miss Eyre ? |
| 10 | She was puzzled for some moments as to the source of the smell , so little did she expect the brothers would be so dirty . |
| 11 | Why did he expect a good crop of sugarbeet ? |
| 12 | Er how did he expect the poor the people to live and pay mortgage and er , you know all this and that on dole money ! |
| 13 | I said well no I cos I said I expected a co I think she deserved a more than a commended . |
| 14 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 15 | Last night the grieving couple were still baffled by the tragedy that struck down six-year-old Elizabeth a week after doctors said they expected a full recovery from a brain tumour . |
| 16 | Analysts said they expected the group to have no big problems persuading shareholders to approve the restructuring plans at an extraordinary general meeting on December 21 . |
| 17 | She is now in Towers Hospital , Leicester , where a spokesman said they expected the family to break the news to her in the next few days . |
| 18 | Many of those who voted against the government would not have done so had they expected an election . |
| 19 | In January 1989 the government said it expected a further 361,000 sales over the next three years . |
| 20 | Forecasting nil growth in the market this year , the company said it expected a slight upturn in the final quarter of 1993 but its total truck sales would not exceed last year 's 32,000 . |
| 21 | Brent Walker said it expected the buyout negotiations ‘ would be successfully completed shortly ’ . |
| 22 | AT&T said it expected the change on future earnings to be negligible and added that there would be no effect on cash flow . |
| 23 | Prost said he expected a tough race but was satisfied with the performance of his car . |
| 24 | He said he expected a substantial part of that money to be used as a ‘ starter ’ sum for Darlington schools St Augustines and St Bedes . |
| 25 | NatWest 's chief executive , Derek Wanless , said he expected a ‘ modest improvement ’ in the current year and welcomed a cut in the key cost to-income ratio from 67.5 per cent to 64.7 per cent . |
| 26 | ( Ferdinando said he expected the profit on Mr Landor 's rooms was so enormous it covered the cost of the rest more than double . ) |
| 27 | John Kendall , economist at Baring Brothers , said he expected the market to continue to be firm next week . |
| 28 | Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt said he expected the project to proceed , but did not say whether the government would take the unprecedented step of overriding the commission ; environmentalists have pressed for a tunnel to be built instead . |
| 29 | An aide to representative Don Fuqua , a leading sponsor of the bill , said he expects the more conservative Senate to offer a $250 to $300 million programme . |
| 30 | Speaking at the company 's developers conference , Apple Computer Inc chairman John Sculley said he expects the company 's strong momentum to continue into the second half of the fiscal year , adding that among new products on the stocks are the speech recognition computer system code-named Caspar and the pen-based portable notebook . |