Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] expect [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I fully expected to see a hangar out there and there was n't one ’ , lamented Kermit as we looked through the many pictures he had brought with him to the Reno Air Races . |
| 2 | I never expected to start a game , ’ he said . |
| 3 | As I look , I half expect to see the air above the building turbulent and violent with the compressed energy of the pain and anger held there . |
| 4 | She always expected to find a rival ; but there was no rival , unless you count Emma Bovary . |
| 5 | They ranged from a tiny mouse , with lifelike whiskers and a twitchy nose , to a metre-high Pied Piper , whose grin was so wickedly triumphant that she almost expected to see the children of Hamlin following behind . |
| 6 | It rather resembles a Victorian village school in outline ( or perhaps Victorian village schools resemble it ! ) , with its steep roof and dormer windows looking like belfries ; you fully expect to see a vicarage and church in the same style hovering nearby . |
| 7 | We normally expect to see a lot of people on a Friday but they 're just not coming through the doors |
| 8 | Spokesman Ken Lawrence said : ‘ Despite what has been written in TODAY , we still expect to win the vote . ’ |
| 9 | In the new year we also expect to launch a forum which will promote information exchange between users and potential users of expert systems . |
| 10 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he now expects to place the order for the fourth Trident submarine . |