Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | All the preparations , all the propaganda , had led them to expect Herr Hitler to start it with a bang , an airborne cataclysm , probably with fire and with deadly gas . |
| 2 | ‘ What the hell have you been up to ? ’ she demanded , glancing down the road as if she expected Herbie Connors to appear on his bike . |
| 3 | ‘ — so how would you expect Harriet Shakespeare to feel now ? ’ |
| 4 | Do you expect Madame Fleur to make twelve dresses in as many hours ? |
| 5 | But we expect Alex Ferguson to try again for-Stuart Pearce at Forest , perhaps offering Neil Webb in part-exchange . |
| 6 | The war now being effectively over , they expected Richard Baxter to return to them . |
| 7 | Very often they expect UK PROs to use the same photographs in their own press campaigns . |
| 8 | HOT-BLOODED men beating a path to the Liverpool Playhouse for the return of the Raving Beauties are in for a shock if they expect Paula Wilcox to reveal all in the adults only show . |
| 9 | Premier League chairmen struck a note of compromise rather than confrontation in London yesterday and they expect Mr Taylor to respond . |
| 10 | He expected Mr Major to turn up at another party on Thursday night — even sneering : ‘ This is the vomit party , tomorrow 's is the cream ’ — but the Premier was flying across the Atlantic for a high-profile visit to Canadian leader Brian Mulroney . |
| 11 | However , with the outbreaks of that disease in cattle beginning to plateau , Keith Meldrum , the Ministry of Agriculture 's chief veterinarian , has gone on record as saying he expects EC countries to start lifting the ban towards the end of the year . |
| 12 | However , Tory leader Coun Lawrie Wild has said he expects Coun Woodhead to do the ‘ honourable thing ’ . |
| 13 | But he expects Wilson Bowden to build and sell 1,650 homes this year , an increase of 30 per cent on 1991 and 1992 . |