Example sentences of "[pron] expect [verb] a [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 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 … |
8 | 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 … |
9 | When the operation is over and after nine weeks the plaster comes off , you expect to see a wasted thin limb . |
10 | How could she expect to do a proper job without the right equipment ? |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Mr Jimmy Airlie , secretary of the Ford union side , said : ‘ We expected to get a favourable majority . |
13 | Naturally we expect to see a fair share of lottery revenue coming to Scotland . |
14 | We expect to have an important debate tomorrow afternoon on the 20 per cent . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Moving to CAM and FMS , one expects to see a significant decrease in direct labour costs . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The main opposition group , the National League for Democracy , said it expected to have an absolute majority when the final results are compiled in about three weeks . |
19 | He invented the morning press conference for the purpose of calling an afternoon press conference to say he expected to make a shattering announcement later in the day . ’ |
20 | El Segundo , California-based Computer Sciences Corp says it expects to record a net gain of about $5m in the first quarter of fiscal 1994 on adoption of a new accounting rule covering income tax reporting . |
21 | Sparc-builder , Unix Solutions Ltd , Dunstable , Bedfordshire , says it expects to receive an initial Sun Microsystems Inc IPX-type workstation from its US partner , the Colombus , Ohio-based Pinnacle Data Systems , by the second week in August . |
22 | The purchase price will be paid in either cash and three-year promissory notes or all cash , but it expects to pay a significant portion with the three-year notes . |
23 | It says it expects to incur a one-time charge of about $8.0m in its fiscal fourth quarter to March 31 to cover the extra costs and charges related to restructuring the integrated operations of the two firms . |
24 | Philips Electronics NV 's Interactive Media Systems group says it expects to launch a whole range of new products based on Compact Disk-Interactive technology , starting with a CD-I player in September to run full-motion video so that users could alter the plot of a movie . |
25 | It expects to present a new business plan to its board by the end of the month . |