Example sentences of "[pers pn] expected [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reviewers would put ‘ When I first heard the name I expected four guys in Factory haircuts ’ . |
| 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 had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated . |
| 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 . |