Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] expect [det] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
6 He says that he expected more mud slinging ; Dowty has been very gentlemanly so far .
7 Er , and I expect that margin to continue rising and be much higher again next year , so the medicine is working there .
8 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 .
9 If you expect that child is going to do a fantastic job on that painting then that encouragement and confidence is coming across .
10 ‘ We 're now asking them to accept a revised model and we expect some opposition . ’
11 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 .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 Not only that but we expect that reward to be a fair and just one .
14 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 .
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