Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 2 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 3 | He half expected to see some naked tourist in the corner , bound and gagged . |
| 4 | An unfinished coffin on black tressels , which stood in the middle of the shop , looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him , every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object : from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head , to drive him mad with terror . |
| 5 | He looked around him , as if he expected to see another presence there . |
| 6 | The summit also resolved to create " a programme to support development efforts in the Arab and Islamic world " , by setting up a fund expected to total some US$15,000-20,000 million , with contributions to be set by Finance Ministers at a forthcoming meeting . |
| 7 | If any Government fails to meet either of these conditions then it will be replaced by another expected to meet both . |
| 8 | I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows . |
| 9 | I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows . |
| 10 | They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty . |
| 11 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 12 | I can not be expected to monitor these statements . |
| 13 | As part of the whole , they are expected to enable all who are present to make their offering to God as fully and as well as they can , in addition to making their own contribution for him . |
| 14 | Market makers can aim to run only modest positions in any group of similar stocks or they can run large but offsetting positions , i.e. being long on certain stocks and short on others such that capital gains and losses can be expected to cancel each other out . |
| 15 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 16 | Salvage and repair work and pumping are expected to continue all day , but more rain is forecast for tonight . |
| 17 | Trade has been stimulated by the process of detente , and the moves towards ‘ democratisation ’ of the Eastern Bloc can be expected to continue this process . |
| 18 | And the trend is expected to continue this year . |
| 19 | The ban , initiated by the State Department and announced on 11 March by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service , is expected to affect fewer than 500 of the approximately 3000 Libyan students at American universities , and only those studying the proscribed subjects . |
| 20 | In our work , however , the carbon-bearing granulite samples have a higher porosity ( Table 1 ) and friable nature , and would be expected to lose much of their porosity , with associated loss of conductivity , when even small pressures are applied . |
| 21 | Some 200,000 members were expected to lose most of their savings in what was described as the worst collapse of a deposit-taking institution in Australia since 1990 . |
| 22 | Tools are expected to include all those currently working with Allbase/SQL , such as those from Channel Computing Inc , Cognos Inc , Gupta Corp , Information Builders Inc , Ingres Corp , JYACC Inc , Powersoft Inc , Speedware Corp , Trifox Inc , Uniface Corp and Unify Corp . |
| 23 | This batch is expected to include all the main hospitals in Edinburgh , Glasgow , Lanarkshire and Central region . |
| 24 | If this was the case new reports would be expected to include fewer recent infections and the average age of people with newly diagnosed HIV infection and the proportion symptomatic at the time of the HIV-1 test would rise . |
| 25 | He says it 's a great shock to everybody and not something you expect to affect such a young chap . |
| 26 | Even so , expect to lose some of the fry despite these safeguards . |
| 27 | There was something like a regular cursus honorum : the capable chaplain was provided with endowment in the form of canonries and dignities in this and that cathedral , for which he was expected to perform little or no duty , and eventually with a bishopric . |
| 28 | Admittedly the Lord Treasurers were , until the appointment of Paulet in 1552 , unqualified noblemen ; but they were not usually expected to perform any serious duties . |
| 29 | All told , BT had expected to invest some $100m in the three ventures . |
| 30 | The rest of continental Europe is not expected to see any significant growth during the year . |