Example sentences of "[noun prp] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent expected the hurricane to last between eight and ten hours . |
| 2 | Watkins Glen was a race Hunt and McLaren expected to win , Japan was an unknown . |
| 3 | As we went to press , the OMG expected to have in hand eight submissions representing some 25 companies . |
| 4 | I felt as if half of Sheffield expected us to get to Wembley so it is a relief that we 've actually done it . ’ |
| 5 | Melanie expected it herself . |
| 6 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 7 | Now the tourists find themselves the underdogs with Will Carling expected to lead England to their third win in the sides ' 10th meeting . |
| 8 | Analysts are forecasting that Zeneca will make taxable profits of about £500 million in the current year , with ICI expected to come in at around £250 million . |
| 9 | The stables were far more primitive than Perdita expected . |
| 10 | The iron-studded door in the central archway looked impervious to battering-rams , but above it , behind a line of similar arches , was the big open terrace on which S. Kettering expected the family to dine — an instruction , Molly thought , which it would be no particular hardship to follow . |
| 11 | Despite this disastrous beginning , however , Giovanna would be there in the morning , her own family circumstances permitting , and she would be much obliged if the Signora would make sure that her children were up and dressed , and the breakfast eaten , so that she could see that the house was returned to something like the order which Signor Kettering expected of it . |
| 12 | He was so candid that , for a moment , Kelly expected him to reveal that they had had dinner together , but with the slightest hint of a cautionary glance in her direction , he merely referred to ‘ a follow-up meeting away from the office ’ . |
| 13 | DEC EXPECTED TO LAUNCH FIRST ALPHA PERSONAL COMPUTER ON MAY 25 |
| 14 | Moscow expected that as in the case of the Baghdad Pact it would not include the United States by formal association . |
| 15 | Pascoe expected to open his door to the present , and found , instead , a face from the past . |
| 16 | MIDDLESBROUGH expect 10,000 season ticket holders to back their Premier League campaign . |
| 17 | COMPUTERVISION EXPECT CONTINUED GROWTH |
| 18 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 19 | Marx and Engels expected the arbiter state to be an untypical regime under capitalism , quickly superseded as the onward rush of history produced decisive shifts of power towards the proletariat . |
| 20 | Corbett expected the Pictish village to be hidden and secretive but suddenly the trees thinned , the sunlight glimmered then poured through as they abruptly left the canopy of trees and entered a large clearing . |
| 21 | Dulles diplomatically expressed sympathy for their point of view only to warn that such a strategy was unlikely to succeed unless the United States expected to win a general war . |
| 22 | Brezhnev expected everyone to take his cut at home and abroad ( as he himself had done ) . |
| 23 | He placed his flabby hand on the hot little forehead , and Edward expected the fever to disappear like magic . |
| 24 | Perhaps Edward expected no other outcome , and indeed preparations for another campaign in France were well in hand when the treaty was concluded . |
| 25 | From this type of starting-point the SDPP expected two things to flow , namely the capturing of a long-term vision within which short-term goals were to be set and , second , a relief in teacher stress . |
| 26 | Her own domestic incompetence ( which was indeed extreme , but what had Edgar expected from a wife with an upbringing like hers ? ) , |
| 27 | QUEENSWAY EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED . |
| 28 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
| 29 | Analysts Richard Sanderson and Chris Roberts expect profits this year , with the US Ogilvy group included for six months , to reach £75m against £40.3m . |
| 30 | How does my hon. and learned Friend expect Palestinians to feel that they will get a fair crack of the whip while they are subjected to those double standards ? |