Example sentences of "[pron] expect [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect the matter to be dealt with promptly . |
| 2 | Wednesday is Fantasy day in the Torygraph so I expect the details to be in there again next week , as nothing more will have happened by then fantasy-wise cos there are no Premiership games . |
| 3 | Palled by the bleak , dusty nooks of outer Dublin ( my mother told me once that eventually , in some parts , all cities look like Brooklyn , and I 'm beginning to see her point ) , I expect the hospital to be yet a stranger place . |
| 4 | Nobody expected the pupils to be paragons of perfection The standards the principal expected of herself were a different matter entirely . |
| 5 | That cost will now be shared with MCI , which expects the venture to be profitable after two years . |
| 6 | She expected the receiver to be replaced . |
| 7 | His emphasis on a one-party state surprised many Zimbabwean political analysts , who expected the issue to be quietly forgotten . |
| 8 | He has already dumped reserves , while yesterday defender Matt Jackson and Stuart Barlow Kendall said : ’ You expect a reaction to the kind of hammering I have the players on Saturday . |
| 9 | — Before you switch on , spend a few minutes thinking about what you expect the programme to be about . |
| 10 | Would you expect the devil to be subsidised by heaven ? ’ |
| 11 | Would you expect the devil to be subsidised by heaven ? ’ |
| 12 | Would you expect the assailant to be bloodstained ? " |
| 13 | that 's coming out , two seven two seven , two nine two nine , what would erm so what answer would you expect if we try one O one times twenty six , what would ma what would you expect the answer to be ? |
| 14 | Election Focus : Labour Boyo Tactics James Langton watches the remarkable transformation of Neil the Wild Man of the Valleys into Kinnock the Man You Can Trust , a figure of international standing who expects the key to Number 10 |
| 15 | ( Surprised , though ; one expected a Swede to be neurotic — but a Scot ! ) |
| 16 | As we look in closer to the centre , we expect the stars to be more closely packed together , and in this central pan of IRS 16 the infrared radiation comes from thousands of ordinary stars packed into a region only a hundred times larger than the Solar System . |
| 17 | Now , we expect the prince to be far less sensitive about their relationship . ’ |
| 18 | We expect the law to be enforced , we expect it to be held because every citizen who lives under that law may change it . |
| 19 | ‘ We expect the permit to be approved within the next few days . ’ |
| 20 | We expect the away-days to be 13 October and 8 December 1990 , and 19 January and 16 March 1991 . |
| 21 | They are , in part , inevitable in writing , especially when the writer is thinking hard , and may be missed when the piece is proof-read , because we expect the words to be correct , and read them as though they were . |
| 22 | We expect the people to be like them and presuppose it in dealing with the people themselves . |
| 23 | ‘ By the time the band releases its next album , we expect the practice to be a memory . |
| 24 | No longer do we expect the penis to be a magical instrument that stands upright on demand , throbs and pulsates all night with the strength of 10,000 men , and immediately regains its firmness just seconds after ejaculation . |
| 25 | The title of this book leads one to expect a contribution to the solution of this problem , but unfortunately these hopes are soon dashed . |
| 26 | LMS was viewed as being very similar to the pilot schemes , although the heads ' opinions tended to be related to how kind they expected the formula to be to their situation . |
| 27 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 28 | It seemed impossible he would escape detection , and with each yard he covered he expected the alarm to be raised from within the house . |
| 29 | But Bristol City chairman Leslie Kew , also chairman of the strife-torn Anglo-Italian Cup said last night that he expected the competition to be staged again next year despite the appalling disciplinary record in this season 's tournament . |
| 30 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |