Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] expect [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case .
2 Observers said they expected pro-reform supporters of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to win 70 per cent of the 270 seats .
3 Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased .
4 It said it expects initial products to be high-end servers and so it turned out in most cases .
5 And last night top U.S. military commander General Colin Powell said he expected Western jets to be enforcing the zone within two weeks .
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