Example sentences of "[pron] expect [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to see a huge hound , but not a creature like this . |
| 2 | I expected to find a tiny shrunken corpse . |
| 3 | I expected to find a privileged crew , tolerating me for some positive press . |
| 4 | Over the coming months I expect to see the Inland Revenue , the Customs and Excise and the DTI increasingly at work in an area ripe for their activities . |
| 5 | I am not so green that I expect to get the sole credit on this movie . |
| 6 | I expect to read a full and objective description of what 's on the site now , together with a documented reconstruction of how it came to be like that . |
| 7 | If HaL meets its reported dates , it could beat Sun to market with a 64-bit system — but it is Sun which expects to create a high-volume 64-bit market supplying both its own needs and those of its cloners . |
| 8 | She was dismayed to see these strangers accosting her when she expected to see an old man in a cowboy hat with a black and white photograph face . |
| 9 | She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive … |
| 10 | She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive … |
| 11 | When the operation is over and after nine weeks the plaster comes off , you expect to see a wasted thin limb . |
| 12 | Naturally you expect to find the highest quality construction in the world in a Mercedes , but the 500SL we tested had numerous faults that we thought ‘ undermined Mercedes ' quality image and appearance ’ . |
| 13 | Who would you expect to have the major input into the decision-making process in the following areas ? |
| 14 | How could she expect to do a proper job without the right equipment ? |
| 15 | Becker , who expects to encounter the 25-year-old Swede in the Davis Cup final here in December , can not understand why he has drifted so long . |
| 16 | The transaction may also take the form of a reverse takeover or a rights issue underwritten by a third party who expects to acquire a controlling interest pursuant to the underwriting . |
| 17 | Mr Jimmy Airlie , secretary of the Ford union side , said : ‘ We expected to get a favourable majority . |
| 18 | Naturally we expect to see a fair share of lottery revenue coming to Scotland . |
| 19 | We expect to save a further $300 million in 1993 . |
| 20 | We expect to have an important debate tomorrow afternoon on the 20 per cent . |
| 21 | We have returns so far from sixty five per cent of the schools and we expect to have the remaining schools before the end of the month , I would n't expect it to change from where we are at the moment but if there was a significant variation then I will be in a position to report back to the Policy Committee at the end of the month but I 'm , I 'm not expecting that need be the case . |
| 22 | The churn rate is now down to eleven percent , the result of positive action that we 've taken there and we expect to add a million homes during this year and the cable audience I am pleased to say is growing still very very slowly er but that should help as well . |
| 23 | By comparing objects in museums with those mentioned in inventories or seen in old drawings and photographs , we expect to get a fuller picture of domestic life in Scotland than we can find in any one source alone . |
| 24 | We expect to find a guilty incident or relationship because he writes continually of guilt ; we expect to find sin because he speaks of atonement and expiation . |
| 25 | We expect to find the missing information in the largely unexplored group of algae and protozoans . |
| 26 | Can we expect to find the fundamental and universal principles in development ? |
| 27 | Moving to CAM and FMS , one expects to see a significant decrease in direct labour costs . |
| 28 | The cause of death is asphyxia , and one expects to find the usual signs of this . |
| 29 | However , directors of the 60 per cent-owned member of Robert Maxwell 's stable of companies , said they expected to maintain a final year dividend of 3p ‘ in view of the satisfactory progress ’ of Pergamon 's £90m-plus disposal programme . |
| 30 | When Habitat decided to launch its incredibly successful range of glass tableware in the US , it expected to take the American market by storm . |