Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] expect [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had a word with him on the phone , and told him to expect a call from you . |
| 2 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 3 | Hoddle says he expects the Italians to be a highly skilled team , but says his own side will contain some talented players . |
| 4 | Optimistically , the company says it expects the business to really take off once NeXTstep ships for Intel platforms later this year . |
| 5 | Earlier this month SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander , told us to expect a version of its Unix operating system to feature on the PowerPC RISC ( CI No 2,124 ) . |
| 6 | Earlier this month SunSoft Inc president , Ed Zander , told us to expect a version of its Unix operating system to feature on the PowerPC RISC ( UX No 426 ) . |
| 7 | It seemed impossible he would escape detection , and with each yard he covered he expected the alarm to be raised from within the house . |
| 8 | And what do we expect the tenants on another sink estate to do when their toilets overflow , spewing sewage from the pipes outside over their bathroom floors ? |
| 9 | No longer do we expect the penis to be a magical instrument that stands upright on demand , throbs and pulsates all night with the strength of 10,000 men , and immediately regains its firmness just seconds after ejaculation . |
| 10 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 11 | AT&T said it expected the change on future earnings to be negligible and added that there would be no effect on cash flow . |
| 12 | ( Ferdinando said he expected the profit on Mr Landor 's rooms was so enormous it covered the cost of the rest more than double . ) |