Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might lead her to change her expectation of the average level of prices ; after all , if she is rational she must know that unpredictable movements in aggregate demand can occur and that one symptom of them is that the price in her island is higher than she was expecting the average to be . |
| 2 | You know , it 's got a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension schemes , papers are gon na flood through the door and annual reports and that sort of thing and it seems to me that all of Goods th the way that this , this pension regulator is deemed to act is that he 's expecting the auditors and the actuaries to whistle blow and |
| 3 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 4 | The princess , looking tanned and relaxed , led her sons into a waiting minibus when the party arrived in London and it is expected the boys will join their father this weekend . |
| 5 | It was worse , far worse this time , because she was expecting the pain , the discomfort , the sharp jabbing of the stones . |
| 6 | Oh , that they knew er something of the Hebrew scriptures because they were expecting the Messiah were n't they ? |
| 7 | I do n't know whether he was expecting the water to burst or what it was . |