Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 2 | When I breathe in beside him I expect to recoil from the smell . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect to stay in the competition — Derry are favourites but Cup football all about shocks , ’ he warns . |
| 4 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 5 | Begin by deciding how many hours sleep you expect to need throughout the week . |
| 6 | What would you expect to happen to the magnitude of the effect once you had controlled for number of years of full-time education ? |
| 7 | ‘ If your uncle has been murdered what do you expect to happen to the business and to you ? ’ |
| 8 | What do you expect to happen in the Tigers tonight ? |
| 9 | What differences would you expect to find in the buying behaviour of an individual buying the same product for his/her own use and also on behalf of an organisation ? |
| 10 | Many had difficulty in differentiating between , ‘ Why do you have the farm ? ’ and ‘ What are you expecting to get from the farm ? ’ . |
| 11 | What this means is that the individual in public feels obliged to broadcast an unceasing stream of non-verbal signs , intended to inform others , whether they be acquaintances or more often otherwise , of the place which he or she expects to have in the undertakings which follow . |
| 12 | Er , yes in the studies in nineteen ninety two er Eurofighter suggested that there could be reductions in the holdings of spares , rolled equipment and support items as a result of the more accurate forecasting which we expect to emerge from the logistics support analysis . |
| 13 | This terrible matter has brought shame on Leicestershire , and we expect to get to the heart of how it could have gone on for so long , while apparently nobody did anything about it . |
| 14 | We , also , have to be able to goto Blackburn and come away with a result if we expect to advance in the Cup any further than the 4th round . |
| 15 | What kind of formal marks , if any , would we expect to find at the beginning of a new paragraph ? |
| 16 | What theme might we expect to find in the background of someone highly motivated by money over long periods ? |
| 17 | It was only 31 1/4 miles , with a branch of 6 1/4 to Kells , so they expected to finish within the day . |
| 18 | This finally freed Raybestos to begin production , which they expected to start by the end of the month . |
| 19 | Moreover , in the national survey , almost 60% of those who responded did not expect to take part in further training and only 8% identified specific topics they expected to cover in the future . |
| 20 | They are willing to do so because they expect to be paid back , and because they expect to profit from the transaction through the interest they charge on the loan — it would be a strange world if they did n't ! |
| 21 | They are willing to do so because they expect to be paid back and because they expect to profit from the transaction through the interest they charge on the loan — it would be a strange world if they did n't ! |
| 22 | region in terms of the general business conditions , or the second most optimistic so it 's not entirely surprising that they now say that they expect to invest on the back of the strength of that optimism . |
| 23 | The transactions demand is related to the function money performs as a medium of exchange in that a certain quantity of money balances is required by economic transactors simply to purchase the goods and services they expect to buy during the period in question . |
| 24 | argue for a preparation stage for all reading comprehension in which students should both predict what they expect to find in the discourse from |
| 25 | He instantly spotted the ‘ yorker ’ delivered by the man from BBC Wales — in effect , that the England match could not have been one he expected to win at the start of the season , therefore the Scottish match must have been on the credit side of the ledger . |
| 26 | He expects to stay at the hotel for some years to come to oversee operations . |
| 27 | Will the right hon. Gentleman remind the House how much warning time he had of the conflict in the Gulf , how much warning he expects to have from the IRA before any outrage and how much warning he expects of the consequences of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the activities of extremists like Mr. Le Pen in France ? |
| 28 | With most of its profits arising overseas , it expects to benefit from the strength of the dollar and other currencies against sterling . |