Example sentences of "[pron] expect [verb] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say I expected to see my sister accuse Orlick of attacking her , but instead she seemed very pleased to see him . |
| 2 | I expected to have my family ripped to shreds , even though my childhood was extremely happy , but in Freudian analysis you look to the family for the source of all your anxieties . |
| 3 | How am I expected to keep my decorum ? |
| 4 | The first and biggest is that no nation which expects to take its place in the world order should be in the business of commissioning international vengeance and terrorism . |
| 5 | The woman looked around the yard as if she expected to see her daughter emerge from one of the doors or from behind a pile of rubbish . |
| 6 | She expected to live her life as though she still had four maids with me doing their work . ’ |
| 7 | Any minute she expected to feel his hand on her breast . |
| 8 | At any moment she expected to hear his voice behind her , calling her back . |
| 9 | How often were you expected to brush your teeth ? |
| 10 | In any case , I do n't know any women who expect to have their dinners paid for . |
| 11 | In due course , we expect to improve our performance beyond those targets , which will allow us to return to delivering a growing dividend . |
| 12 | Consistent with our view of forecast oil prices , we expect to reduce our exploration expenditure to around £90 million in 1993 and we will benefit from third party expenditures on properties which LASMO has farmed out to major oil companies in Colombia , Pakistan and Yemen . |
| 13 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 14 | They expected to make their profit by pushing the price of the shares up , so that they could buy the government bonds for a relatively small number of shares . |
| 15 | The type of CAD system that would be of use to such a skills-centred firm would depend not only on where they expect to interface their system into the existing design process , but also on the volume of products being produced , and the skills being provided , by the manufacturing facility . |
| 16 | If so how are they expected to change their lifestyle ? |
| 17 | AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Paul Keating said today he expected to discuss his country 's push to become a republic with the Queen during his stay at Balmoral next week . |
| 18 | Last week the receivers moved in and now he expects to lose his home as well as his business . |
| 19 | The laird of Lethem 's motive , as interpreted by Lord Elphinstone , was to serve his own interest , for it appeared that Aucheneen was ‘ a bankrupt maltman who broke sixty pounds in Mr. Dundas 's debt , & by getting Mr. Buchanan chosen collector of the cess he expects to opperate his payment ’ . |
| 20 | COSE continues to resist any designation as a group or collective appellation as the COSE companies , ostensibly because it expects to expand its membership . |
| 21 | IBM 's announcement that it expects to slash its workforce this year by more than the 25,000 first planned will not affect its European operations , said a spokesman at the company 's Greenock plant . |