Example sentences of "i expect [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 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 had enough sitting around wanted to get back to the bit like mews |
| 9 | ‘ But because unemployment tends to increase for a while even after growth has resumed and because some taxes , particularly corporation tax , are collected a year in arrears , I expect borrowing next year to rise further . |
| 10 | I expect to go higher really . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Tommaso began saying , ‘ I expect to hear any day now … . ’ |