Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 2 | But fans who expected the maestro to run through all of his favourites were disappointed . |
| 3 | But he wanted a nice girl who expected the ring . |
| 4 | At every moment she expected the girl behind the desk to call her back : ‘ Hey , you ! ’ and question her right to be here . |
| 5 | In such cases we expect the duration to increase if the intervention is being effective . |
| 6 | Election Focus : Labour Boyo Tactics James Langton watches the remarkable transformation of Neil the Wild Man of the Valleys into Kinnock the Man You Can Trust , a figure of international standing who expects the key to Number 10 |
| 7 | Although the deal is not yet final , a spokesperson for the Palais told The Art Newspaper she expects the Kunsthalle to relocate to Bonsecours Market in the Old City where it will reopen next May , perhaps with a new name , and probably with a show about Alexander the Great and Macedonia . |
| 8 | Once the Scottish Office commence their national publicity for Council Tax at the end of September I expect the number of enquiries , including enquiries about Banding , to increase dramatically . |
| 9 | To show this , suppose that the UK has a relatively high rate of inflation and that , as a result , the pound is depreciating : speculators who expect the pound to continue depreciating will sell pounds and buy stronger currencies so as to make a capital gain later . |
| 10 | In this case it expects the Go option to be pressed . |
| 11 | In cases of long standing chronic disease I expect the patient to start feeling better within a day or two and certainly would n't continue with a remedy if there was no improvement after a week . |
| 12 | At least for the short period of time he expected the combat to last . |
| 13 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |