Example sentences of "we expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's exactly what we expected , Sergeant . |
| 2 | ‘ We expected players would serve to Jimmy 's forehand ’ , explains Segura ‘ not his strong two fisted backhand . |
| 3 | Just when we expected to see Cordoba produce an extra gear as Walter Swinburn got to work with the whip , the son of El Gran Senor capitulated and it was Balla Cove who produced extra reserves to hold the late thrust of Rock City . |
| 4 | So far this year our revenues are ahead and still healthy , but they are not what we expected . |
| 5 | ‘ But Sky is a major risk which has grown largely because of the activities of the competition , which have forced up the price of the product infinitely higher than we expected or was necessary . |
| 6 | For various reasons , we expected little of the sitting hen . |
| 7 | From what we already knew about its audiences and programme content , we expected that television would have a stronger influence on public information and perceptions than on public attitudes and choices ; while the press , particularly the mass-selling tabloids , would have a stronger influence on public attitudes and choices than on public information and perceptions . |
| 8 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 9 | Mr Jimmy Airlie , secretary of the Ford union side , said : ‘ We expected to get a favourable majority . |
| 10 | Anyway , at Stevenage Town Hall we told Ralph that we expected some money for these . |
| 11 | Events having turned out better than we expected , we returned to make our plans for the following Sunday when we intended to open . |
| 12 | That leaves 8 in the main working band from 2.5–7.5mph which was fewer than we expected . |
| 13 | We expected that the most intelligent horses would get the empty bucket off the top of the food in the shortest time . |
| 14 | We expected sabotage from the Labour extremists and hired two 100,000 watt generators in case the electrical sub-station was cut off . |
| 15 | It 's certainly much more international than we expected , ’ said Bromley . |
| 16 | As Argyll and lord James said , in their reply of the 13th in which they openly declared it to be the role of the nobles and council ‘ to provide that the ancient liberties of the realm be freed from tyranny of strangers ( and ) to abolish ( God assisting us ) all manifest idolatry and maintainers ’ , he had not been ‘ so full and plain as we expected ’ . |
| 17 | In practice , although this way of thinking was one perspective from which we looked at our material , it proved much less useful than we expected . |
| 18 | We expected it to somehow embrace the undisputed magic of the band . |
| 19 | The result is positive , as we expected : service class children are more likely to attend selective secondary schooling than working class children are . |
| 20 | ‘ When we moved the telescope off the galaxy to what we expected to be blank sky , ’ Terzian explained , ‘ we got a signal instead . |
| 21 | So , having accepted that the 25SE is something other than we expected it to be , let's examine it more closely . |
| 22 | ‘ We are both pleased I 've done so well — we have got a high standard of living , better than we expected . ’ |
| 23 | Husband Tony added : ‘ The results came through a lot quicker than we expected . |
| 24 | ‘ The figures are well in excess of what we expected . |
| 25 | ‘ We expected a physical game and we certainly got one . |
| 26 | ‘ The climbing was much more difficult than we expected , ’ Venables said . |
| 27 | We expected handshakes all round , the departure of the PM to affairs of state , and an aide leading us to an ante-room for ginger snaps and coffee . |
| 28 | ‘ People on low incomes will be getting some help to pay the fuel bills and all in all it 's a Budget that 's not as bad as we expected , ’ Mr Bull said . |
| 29 | Which is just as we expected . |
| 30 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |