Example sentences of "[pron] expect [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous . |
| 2 | Whenever I am in Barcelona I expect to run into Jordi , even today , thirty years later , in a totally different , freer , happier Spain . |
| 3 | From New Year 's Day onwards , the whole of 1849 , the last year she expected to spend in England , was to Ruth simply a period of temporising ; of waiting , though seldom patiently , for the only event which had come to mean anything . |
| 4 | They also flicker in places ; not something you expect to see in games these days . |
| 5 | Some advisers suggest that you look to past precedents within the company ; others recommend that you gear your expectations to the financial sum that you expect to require in order to exist in reasonable comfort until another job comes along ; others simply suggest that you look for payment of a year 's full salary . |
| 6 | In Northern Ireland , where wider cultural values about gender and sex roles are reinforced by common practice , policewomen can be humiliated and face hostility and resentment from some male members of the public who expect to deal with policemen , and normally do . |
| 7 | Right Copse Corner what would you expect to find at Copse Corner ? |
| 8 | Er , I think er , Frank will correct me if we 're closer to the , to the sharp edge than Anglia , who have got a very small stake and only in the equity of B S B H , are coming very low in the pecking order to get their money , whereas er , where there is a whole complex er , schedule of who will participate in the er , substantial cash flow that we expect to emanate from B Sky B in due course , but I think that 's the main reason why Anglia , I have n't talked to David . |
| 9 | In fact they expected to meet with USL chairman Bob Kavner and lay their money on the table the week before Christmas , only to be caught off guard by the Novell announcement . |
| 10 | Many large companies , including Merrill Lynch , Shearson Lehman , and Bear Stearns , have allowed employees to take at least part of the bonus money they expect to earn before December 31 . |
| 11 | One way of doing this is to ensure that specialists implementing technical changes , eg the Resource Management Initiative , pay heed to the behavioural changes they expect to promote in managers and staff involved . |
| 12 | The study of black sportsmen and society brings into relief the way in which the youths ' orientations to school and what they expect to achieve from education affect , not segmentally but totally , their attitudes , postures and the way in which they apportion their time and energies . |
| 13 | They will be different in terms of the sort of interaction they expect to have with computer depending on whether they 're data entry people or management users and maybe some of our users are people in the street , our customers er who who will increasingly become users of systems themselves . |
| 14 | They propose to research the patterns of socialization operating within the evangelical-baptist culture and thereby to investigate the effect on educational achievement of the cluster of variables they expect to uncover as emphasis on bible study and abstention from aspects of secular culture . |
| 15 | Firms base their production plans for period t on the price they expect to prevail in t , this expectation being formed , as before , in the light of information available at the end of period t - 1 . |
| 16 | How are they expected to change over time , for example , in relation to new developments , market conditions , competitors , new legislation , exchange rates and political risks ? |
| 17 | He expected to act as sponsor to Chou En-lai in the unfamiliar field of international diplomacy , but it was actually Chou who took over centre stage ( as The Times pronounced , 25 April 1955 , ‘ It has been Mr Chou En-lai 's week ’ ) . |
| 18 | As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time . |
| 19 | ‘ A mere setting apart or selection by the seller of the goods which he expects to use in performance of the contract is not enough . |
| 20 | With the big day looming closer , Richard Middleton , president of the firm 's UK operation , says he expects to hear from Granada TV any day now . |
| 21 | It expects to conclude with recommendations for managing the process of market-orientated change . |
| 22 | The company revealed in course it expects to pay out £1,412,336 in compensation , as well as the clean up operation , which is still going on . |