Example sentences of "[pron] expect [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , I expect a regular progress report . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am not quite the Hochhauser rapist I am made out to be , but I expect a little peck , just here , on the cheek . ’ |
| 3 | I expect a Public Sector Borrowing Requirement in the current financial year of £35 billion , slightly lower than projected at the time of my Autumn Statement . |
| 4 | I have always thought that league results are what matter most to Motherwell and I expect a harder game than were given that day . ’ |
| 5 | My main solace is being able to write down ( I expect no instant adoration ) my feelings , isolation , experiences , attitudes , in prose or poetry on paper — a safety valve . |
| 6 | His excuse was forgetfulness but I expect the real reason was lack of funds . |
| 7 | I expect the young novelist ( it seems unfair to give his name ) was thinking of the ‘ first , suppressed edition ’ of Les Fleurs du mal . |
| 8 | I expect the other sort have a ball — like Bella , ’ she added unkindly . |
| 9 | No , the estate agent reckons it 'll be converted into flats , so I expect the new owner 's going to want you out . |
| 10 | I expect the poor soul took the will for the deed , if you 'll excuse a weak joke . |
| 11 | I expect the Scottish Transport Group , before reaching a decision on assistance , to see what it could do to encourage any separate teams to come together to mount a single bid . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister was heard in silence , and I expect the same courtesy to be extended to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 13 | I 've refused work , and I expect the same loyalty from Enya , even if she married Phil Spector tomorrow ! |
| 14 | Well I expect the whole thing needs washing does n't it ? |
| 15 | ‘ I expect an important letter . |
| 16 | You expect a little bit of jostling do n't you when there 's a crowd seen in the penalty box . |
| 17 | You expect a whole speech of explanation . |
| 18 | Draw a sketch plan of what you expect the finished shop to look like . |
| 19 | Such a policy of extensification would avoid food mountains and ensure that our land was properly looked after by farmers who want to work and who expect a reasonable return for their efforts . |
| 20 | Its intensity ( that is , its energy content ) is given by the square of this , so we expect a transmitted fraction of unc as is indeed the case . |
| 21 | We welcome the emphasis on safety in the North sea , but we expect a parallel prioritisation of the extremely dangerous potential accident sites onshore , and we expect to see an improvement in that situation . |
| 22 | What we are doing , if we expect a negative outcome , is providing our fear with food from the imagination . |
| 23 | Over the next twelve months we expect a further increase in those needing our Home Care service to enable them to live and die at home . |
| 24 | We expect a further reduction in 1993 . |
| 25 | There should then be no plateaux in the Hall voltage because as more electrons are added to an unfilled Landau level we expect a smooth decrease of the Hall voltage . |
| 26 | Those ultimate motivations will be the subject of the next section , but here we are interested in exactly what it is that we expect a pragmatic theory to do . |
| 27 | In the first month of its operation it received 280 inquiries ; but commenting on this figure , a spokesman said : ‘ We expect a dramatic increase in inquiries once head teachers come back from holiday and examine the information we have sent them ’ . |
| 28 | From the considerations of Chapter 15 , we expect the quantitative formulation of the relative importance of inertia and buoyancy forces to be made in terms of some form of the Froude number ( eqn ( 15.7 ) ) . |
| 29 | We expect the Islamic nation to support us in our latest struggle which we are carrying out in order to preserve the interests of the whole Islamic world . |
| 30 | It is then that we expect the best group from Southern Africa to be there , including the Homeland leaders . |