Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] expect [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all the results now known for the elections to the General Synod of the Church of England , supporters say they expect the Church to agree to the ordination of women in the next few years . |
| 2 | It seemed she expected an answer , so I gave it . |
| 3 | Well , do you normally walk in or , or , or do you expect a ride ? |
| 4 | I 've had a word with him on the phone , and told him to expect a call from you . |
| 5 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 6 | With the graphics visualisation market apparently booming at present , PV says it expects the company to report an increase in profits this year of $19.3m , up $2.5m from the previous year 's $16.8m . |
| 7 | Optimistically , the company says it expects the business to really take off once NeXTstep ships for Intel platforms later this year . |
| 8 | Earlier this month SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander , told us to expect a version of its Unix operating system to feature on the PowerPC RISC ( CI No 2,124 ) . |
| 9 | Earlier this month SunSoft Inc president , Ed Zander , told us to expect a version of its Unix operating system to feature on the PowerPC RISC ( UX No 426 ) . |
| 10 | I do n't think she expected a present |
| 11 | Suppose we expect the relation ( 1 ) to be unc and suppose further that we have the following experimental table : unc Then in view of ( 5 ) our equations for solutions may be written unc Before we proceed to the least squares solution , let us see what results would be obtained if we solved these equations three at a time , with e taken to be zero for each set of three . |
| 12 | It seemed impossible he would escape detection , and with each yard he covered he expected the alarm to be raised from within the house . |
| 13 | This coincided , however , with an increasing prevalence of the conditions and institutions which should lead us to expect the reporting and recording of offences to grow in proportion to the actual occurrence of victimization . |
| 14 | ‘ Interesting , ’ she said , when she realised he expected a comment . |
| 15 | Richardson admitted he expected the booing . |
| 16 | ‘ And you think I expect a return ? ’ |
| 17 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 18 | ‘ Did you expect a present , Miss Eyre ? |
| 19 | After her electrifying performance as an obsessive fan who helps Robert De Niro kidnap a talk show host in Martin Scorsese 's 1982 King Of Comedy , she has admitted she expected the phone to ring . |
| 20 | And when do you expect the Kilcharran ? ’ |
| 21 | First , when the questions asked in the surveys are qualitative in nature ( for example : Do you expect the inflation rate to rise , fall , stay the same ? ) , any quantitative index we use to measure the response is likely to be a crude indicator of the magnitude of the true underlying expectation and is likely to contain measurement errors . |
| 22 | Second , even if the questions posed in the surveys are quantitative in nature ( for example : What do you expect the inflation rate to be in the next year ? ) and the average expectations elicited from the surveys in a particular market appear biased and inefficient , only a few ‘ sophisticated ’ individuals operating in that market could make the market function as if rational expectations were operating , even though many of the individuals operating in the market are not behaving rationally . |
| 23 | When do you expect the Government to start their review of the nuclear industry ? |
| 24 | And if I ca n't make her open up , how do you expect the doctor to do so ? ’ |
| 25 | What do you expect the training to do for you ? |
| 26 | No longer do we expect the penis to be a magical instrument that stands upright on demand , throbs and pulsates all night with the strength of 10,000 men , and immediately regains its firmness just seconds after ejaculation . |
| 27 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 28 | She is now in Towers Hospital , Leicester , where a spokesman said they expected the family to break the news to her in the next few days . |
| 29 | Analysts said they expected the group to have no big problems persuading shareholders to approve the restructuring plans at an extraordinary general meeting on December 21 . |
| 30 | Many of those who voted against the government would not have done so had they expected an election . |