Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that , through his energy and skill , he has now given a powerful send-off to the new United Nations and its new Secretary-General in the very complex and difficult tasks that we expect the UN to have to face in the post-cold-war world ? |
| 3 | Even with this beta version , no major problems have surfaced , so we expect the release version to be very solid and robust . |
| 4 | ‘ Nevertheless , conditions in certain markets of importance to Volex give grounds for optimism and I expect the Group to make further progress in the current year . ’ |
| 5 | The Government are playing their part to alleviate those difficulties and we expect the mortgage lenders — all the responsible ones — to play their part in that . |
| 6 | We have released sites er in the countryside and we expect the countryside protection policy to apply outside the urban areas and outside of the sites that we 've allocated for development . |
| 7 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 8 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
| 9 | Josh does n't have much of an appetite at present , but I expect the boys will be hungry when they get home from school . ’ |
| 10 | That is a beginning , but I expect the insurance industry to do much more in helping to reduce car crime . |
| 11 | There was some truth in this but I expect the practice still goes on today . |
| 12 | ‘ I could n't , ’ Knocker grunted , ‘ do n't get much call for 'em around here , but I expect the Missus can . ’ |
| 13 | Yes but you expect the value in it |
| 14 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | International investors continued to switch their money out of sterling because they expect the Government to slash interest rates . |