Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
2 | But he wanted a nice girl who expected the ring . |
3 | At every moment she expected the girl behind the desk to call her back : ‘ Hey , you ! ’ and question her right to be here . |
4 | Election Focus : Labour Boyo Tactics James Langton watches the remarkable transformation of Neil the Wild Man of the Valleys into Kinnock the Man You Can Trust , a figure of international standing who expects the key to Number 10 |
5 | Although the deal is not yet final , a spokesperson for the Palais told The Art Newspaper she expects the Kunsthalle to relocate to Bonsecours Market in the Old City where it will reopen next May , perhaps with a new name , and probably with a show about Alexander the Great and Macedonia . |
6 | In this case it expects the Go option to be pressed . |
7 | In cases of long standing chronic disease I expect the patient to start feeling better within a day or two and certainly would n't continue with a remedy if there was no improvement after a week . |
8 | At least for the short period of time he expected the combat to last . |
9 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |