Example sentences of "when [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone expected him to break into a nimble tune , he played a slow air that sounded Irish in the long luxuriant unfolding of each phrase . |
| 2 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 3 | ‘ I actually won quite easily when I expected that I 'd still have a lot to learn , ’ he explains . |
| 4 | I can not say precisely when I expect him to return , though I should suppose in about a week from now . ’ |
| 5 | It was in 1985 that he won this championship at Dornoch when nobody expected him to , but this time he could start favourite over what he calls ‘ my own private Shangri La ’ . |
| 6 | The first is the classic bitmap graphic output when you expected a beautifully drawn diagram . |
| 7 | For any long distance sailing you should inform someone where you are going and when you expect to return . |
| 8 | I have noticed that this frustrating experience usually occurs in promising conditions when you expect to catch fish , and when these bites begin they last for unusually long periods and happen very frequently . |
| 9 | Note down all your appointments and any follow-up dates when you expect to hear results or ought to telephone for information . |
| 10 | Just when you expect them to lash into some wicked rockabilly they come out with the Radio 4 theme music soundalike of ‘ Mala Femmina ’ . |
| 11 | When you , when you expect that that that that takes the copy back in the old file . |
| 12 | Just when you expect them to lash into some wicked rockabilly they come out with the Radio 4 theme music soundalike of ‘ Mala Femmina ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ When you expect something , it is not so bad , even if it is painful , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ When you expect a deal to happen they may tell you there has been a last minute problem and the people either providing the funds or the guarantee either require a non-performance bond to be put up or require some kind of payment up front to prove you really mean business . |
| 15 | She was dismayed to see these strangers accosting her when she expected to see an old man in a cowboy hat with a black and white photograph face . |
| 16 | Just when we expected to see Cordoba produce an extra gear as Walter Swinburn got to work with the whip , the son of El Gran Senor capitulated and it was Balla Cove who produced extra reserves to hold the late thrust of Rock City . |
| 17 | Our normal response is to look for a comparatively minor adjustment near the periphery ; if we can not see the cake when we expected to we would normally suppose , perhaps , that someone has eaten it , rather than that cakes now have a tendency to dematerialize . |
| 18 | But that is precisely what happens when we expect plants to live and thrive , not as nature intended , but on chemical fertilizers . |
| 19 | We see how limited these global concepts are , though , when we expect them to tell us something about how children will actually behave . |
| 20 | Tension is also created when we expect one thing , and something else , quite different , occurs . |
| 21 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 22 | Delegates indicated that the next full CODESA meeting would be held in April ( rather than in March as originally intended ) , when they expected the working groups to have made substantive progress . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects to conclude a sale of the Princess of Wales RAF hospital , Ely . |
| 25 | To ask the Attorney-General when he expects to bring prosecutions under the War Crimes Act 1991 . |
| 26 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects TASM to be in service ; and where they will be based . |
| 27 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects the higher standards of residual stability recommended by the steering committee of the roll on/roll off ferry safety research programme to be applied to all roll on/roll off ferries using British ports . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy when he expects to announce the terms of the inquiry into the plans by the National Grid Company to erect new overhead power lines in North Yorkshire and Cleveland . |
| 29 | To ask the Lord President of the Council when he expects results from the feasibility study on refreshment facilities for visitors to the House . |
| 30 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects to have available ( a ) information on the United Kingdom gross domestic product per head in 1991 and ( b ) comparable information for the other member states of the European Community . |