Example sentences of "i expect [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 to go higher really . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Tommaso began saying , ‘ I expect to hear any day now … . ’ |