Example sentences of "and [pers pn] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been defiled , and I expected punishment . |
| 2 | Whenever we went there , Salvo and I expected Hasan 's ghost to leap out of the darkness and slit our throats with his dagger . |
| 3 | I say borrow but the cash was never refunded and I expect Dad thought it was a cheap way to get rid of him . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've lost four clients out of a total of 1,800 and I expect others will drift away , but we picked up a new client just this morning . ’ |
| 5 | Our business is budgeted to expand by 25 per cent in 1993 and I expect trading conditions to improve as buyers appreciate current values and the affordability of our new homes . |
| 6 | ‘ The vicar and his wife , of course , ’ she was saying , ‘ and I expect Penelope will come too . |
| 7 | ‘ Lee Clark certainly has the potential to score a lot of goals and I expect people like Brian Kilcline to hit some from set pieces . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Jim Mangold will be feeding them now , ’ said Daisy Pettigrew comfortingly , ‘ and I expect Faustina will be getting her share . |
| 9 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And we expect others to keep coming forward . ’ |
| 11 | We impose heavy loads on those with both brain and brawn , and we expect saintliness from them as well . |
| 12 | Besides , it could be very profitable : PR firms set an inflated value on their own services , and they expected others to do the same . |
| 13 | That 's how much the hard-up south Londoners need to maintain their cashflow , and they expect Liverpool , Blackburn and Leeds to lead the bidding . |
| 14 | West will again have Paul Pook at lock , with Peter Robinson in the back row , and they expect winger Dave Cooke to have recovered from an injury he suffered while guesting for Middlesbrough last Saturday . |
| 15 | Yet customers walk through an entrance with 24ft stone pillars to reach our bar and they expect prices to be high in such an environment . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't earn any money and they expect Scott to pay . |
| 17 | Premier League chairmen struck a note of compromise rather than confrontation in London yesterday and they expect Mr Taylor to respond . |
| 18 | The sergeant thought Blanche would be tired after the tension of the previous hour or two , and he expected Blanche to sit at her desk quietly for a few minutes . |
| 19 | Greenspan stated that the probability of recession had slipped below 50 per cent and he expected growth in the first quarter of 1990 to be " slow but positive " . |
| 20 | The brunt of the company 's restructuring , which has lead to 18,000 layoffs in two years ( a cut of close to 30% ) , says Mr De Benedetti , is now over and he expects Olivetti to return to profit in 1994 . |
| 21 | Intel Corp says it will ship 60 versions of the 80486 this year , with clock speeds ranging from 25MHz to 100MHz , senior vice-president Paul Otellini told the Hambrecht & Quist conference in San Francisco : ‘ We now have the capacity to build some 30m 80486s in 1993 , ’ Otellini said , and he expects Intel to sell some 100m 80486 chips after 1993 ; Intel expects to spend some $900m on research and development this year , up from $780m in 1992 , he declared , and would do 1m Pentiums in 1994 . |