Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] expect the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed impossible he would escape detection , and with each yard he covered he expected the alarm to be raised from within the house . |
| 2 | Richardson admitted he expected the booing . |
| 3 | She was puzzled for some moments as to the source of the smell , so little did she expect the brothers would be so dirty . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Brent Walker said it expected the buyout negotiations ‘ would be successfully completed shortly ’ . |
| 8 | AT&T said it expected the change on future earnings to be negligible and added that there would be no effect on cash flow . |
| 9 | ( Ferdinando said he expected the profit on Mr Landor 's rooms was so enormous it covered the cost of the rest more than double . ) |
| 10 | John Kendall , economist at Baring Brothers , said he expected the market to continue to be firm next week . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |