Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] expect [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name . |
| 2 | erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem . |
| 3 | Should the ensuing insomnia mean dropping off during the day , then again you will be awakened , this time by real Hercules transport planes — Elveden Forest , being in East Anglia , is very close to numerous air-bases and so many jets scream overhead that one expects any minute to bump into a tight-lipped Kate Adie dressed in camouflage fatigues . |
| 4 | Anyway , at Stevenage Town Hall we told Ralph that we expected some money for these . |
| 5 | After a meeting with umpires Steve Randell and Terry Prue , Subba Row said in a statement that he expected all players to adhere to proper standards of behaviour . |
| 6 | Bolger took office on Oct. 28 and announced his new 18-member Cabinet on Nov. 1 , using the occasion to stress that he expected all Ministers to observe the tradition of collective responsibility . |
| 7 | In a budget report presented in mid-1990 , the Minister of Finance , Kinza Clodumar , said that he expected that phosphate royalties would drop by A$10,000,000 from the 1989-90 figure of A$25,000,000 . |
| 8 | He says that he expected more mud slinging ; Dowty has been very gentlemanly so far . |
| 9 | TECs will have responsibility for the initiative , and I expect many bids . |
| 10 | Er , and I expect that margin to continue rising and be much higher again next year , so the medicine is working there . |
| 11 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 12 | If you expect that child is going to do a fantastic job on that painting then that encouragement and confidence is coming across . |
| 13 | It 's a wonderful place to work , and we expect more surprises . ’ |
| 14 | I confirm that there is still time for organisations to respond to our proposals and we expect more representations during the consultation period . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're now asking them to accept a revised model and we expect some opposition . ’ |
| 16 | How do you know whether anything has been a success , or whether you 're doing anything right , unless you ask , and we expect this rationale to follow through into our community investment programme . |
| 17 | ‘ A number of distinguished engineers have been Whitworth Scholars , and we expect this year 's award winners to be high achievers in their subsequent careers , ’ he said . |
| 18 | In the case of major company resources it is fair to say that the very large companies invest millions in their computer systems and they expect these systems to have a life span of at least a decade . |
| 19 | It said 1,200 of the 1,700 employees that left during the quarter did so after voluntarily accepting severance packages , and it expects more departures as the job-cutting programme spreads to new countries . |
| 20 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
| 21 | whatever you can , there 's no stipulation you 've got to do so many , you have to do whatever you can , but I expect some people can take them to work and just leave them on ca n't they ? |
| 22 | Not only that but we expect that reward to be a fair and just one . |
| 23 | Secretary or even Chairman before you expect these distinctions . |
| 24 | The use of a mode register reduces the number of operation codes required , but it does not eliminate the problem of an instruction being given operands of one format when it expects another format . |