Example sentences of "[pron] expect the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His excuse was forgetfulness but I expect the real reason was lack of funds . |
| 2 | In my union branch , as in many others , I expect the best activists to be voting Labour . |
| 3 | I expect the young novelist ( it seems unfair to give his name ) was thinking of the ‘ first , suppressed edition ’ of Les Fleurs du mal . |
| 4 | I expect the other sort have a ball — like Bella , ’ she added unkindly . |
| 5 | No , the estate agent reckons it 'll be converted into flats , so I expect the new owner 's going to want you out . |
| 6 | I expect the poor soul took the will for the deed , if you 'll excuse a weak joke . |
| 7 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 8 | I expect the Scottish Transport Group , before reaching a decision on assistance , to see what it could do to encourage any separate teams to come together to mount a single bid . |
| 9 | The Prime Minister was heard in silence , and I expect the same courtesy to be extended to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 10 | I 've refused work , and I expect the same loyalty from Enya , even if she married Phil Spector tomorrow ! |
| 11 | Well I expect the whole thing needs washing does n't it ? |
| 12 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 13 | I would suggest to you colleagues , it 's because the , your expectations and those of the , er , the other erm , stake holders involved in the other agencies about joint planning depends on what you expect the joint structures to carry . |
| 14 | Draw a sketch plan of what you expect the finished shop to look like . |
| 15 | Or do you expect the poor beast to get off and skip round on its own for you ? ’ |
| 16 | 2 What do you expect the retail price to be ? $399 was suggested for the 4000 , I think , of which you said $240 would be your net receipts . |
| 17 | Were you expecting the royal yacht Britannia , complete with resident crew ? ’ |
| 18 | No one expected the pastoral Masai to go out to work en masse as agricultural labourers for the Europeans , and so their officers were spared the necessity of acting as labour recruiters — in itself enough to lighten the heart of any administrative officer in Kenya . |
| 19 | From the considerations of Chapter 15 , we expect the quantitative formulation of the relative importance of inertia and buoyancy forces to be made in terms of some form of the Froude number ( eqn ( 15.7 ) ) . |
| 20 | We expect the Islamic nation to support us in our latest struggle which we are carrying out in order to preserve the interests of the whole Islamic world . |
| 21 | We expect the final PPG Note to be compatible with existing guidance . |
| 22 | It is then that we expect the best group from Southern Africa to be there , including the Homeland leaders . |
| 23 | The Dutch version is selling well and we expect the German version to do even better . ’ |
| 24 | We expect the underlying pricing structure to remain rather similar when the electricity industry is privatized , but closely regulated , in the early 1990s . ) |
| 25 | Certainly we expect the biggest increase to be in long-haul carriage . |
| 26 | ‘ We expect the dire trading situation to continue to the end of the financial year if not beyond , ’ said Haskins . |
| 27 | Furthermore , we would expect any doctor , not just our own , to behave in the ‘ proper ’ manner , in the same way that we expect the same sort of behaviour from all shop assistants , or all priests , or all fathers . |
| 28 | With no disincentives for patients to request night visits and incentives for general practitioners to visit can we expect the increased level of activity to yield health or welfare benefits or avoid costs elsewhere in the system ? |
| 29 | Indeed , how much longer can we expect the other provinces to continue carrying us ? |
| 30 | But how can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? |