Example sentences of "expect [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 2 | More than 5000 are expected to attend the ASE Conference at the University from 4–7 January 1991 . |
| 3 | Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley was briefed throughout the weekend on the latest atrocities and tomorrow is expected to meet the Garda Commissioner , Patrick Culligan , when the intergovernmental conference examines cross-border co-operation . |
| 4 | The dykes are the last stronghold for plants and must be cleaned up if they can be expected to re-colonize the Broads in the future . |
| 5 | Several hundred people from Northern Ireland are expected to cross the Atlantic to support the Republic 's team , who are virtually assured of qualifying for the final stages after their 2–0 defeat of Lithuania in Dublin on Wednesday . |
| 6 | U2 issue a radically re-worked version of ‘ Who 's Gon na Ride Your Wild Horses ’ as a single at the end of this month and are expected to announce the UK stadium leg of their current world tour next week . |
| 7 | This year , having described Martin Amis 's novel London Fields — at first widely expected to win the Booker Prize — ‘ as a fizzy , spiky , savagely satirical book ’ which was ‘ sometimes so horrible it makes you gag , so funny it makes you fall off your chair ’ , the judges instead gave the prize to Lindsay Clarke for The Chymical Wedding . |
| 8 | Mr Goddard , a former mayor of Phoenix who had been expected to win the November race easily , first lowered the tone by comparing Mr Symington to Charles Keating , the financier at the heart of the Lincoln Savings and Loan disaster . |
| 9 | She is now expected to leave the Highlands after a miserable break . |
| 10 | It is expected to contact the St Petersburg Institute for Research and Development of Biotechnical Systems , the whale 's owners , to offer a home to Brightness which , in commercial terms , is worth about £100,000 , excluding a premium for his fame . |
| 11 | A sell-out 40,000 crowd was expected to welcome the Wigan ace for tomorrow 's home game against Balmain . |
| 12 | Former leader Neil Kinnock is expected to top the NEC poll and Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , standing for the first time , is also expected to sweep in . |
| 13 | Other multi-occupied Bank premises in London are expected to join the Save-a-Cup scheme in the near future . |
| 14 | Other European subsidiaries are expected to follow the UK 's example if the catalogue is a success . |
| 15 | No precise numbers were given , but this was expected to bring the US presence to some 400,000 when deployment was completed in January 1991 . |
| 16 | ( b ) Possession is exactly the sort of book you 'd expect to win the Booker Prize . |
| 17 | Maguire , who struck Playing Truant 14 times , had been expecting to ride the Richard Lee-trained Space Fair in the Mackeson . |
| 18 | Maguire had been expecting to ride the Richard Lee-trained Space Fair in the Mackeson Gold Cup . |
| 19 | Taylor , the 1984 Olympic gold medallist , is sure to add extra interest for the massive American TV audience expected to watch the Lewis-Ruddock clash . |
| 20 | Paul Dodge , once the hard centre amongst England 's backs , is recovering from a pulled hamstring and expects to make the Orrell trip , but there are still doubts about the fitness of John Wells , the England B flanker whose hamstring problems may keep him out for two more weeks . |