Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [to-vb] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to see Dr Mortimer , as I knew nobody else in the village . |
| 2 | I knew that Hannah had experienced problems with rodents so I expected to find rat runs and nests underneath the flags , but only mice had been there . |
| 3 | On top of that , the presence of these two will allow the full-backs more freedom and I expect to see Stuart Pearce getting forward in his old style . |
| 4 | Not only am I expected to love Belle Maman , she thought , but now I must love IT as well . |
| 5 | He had taken it , now , that she was not going ; she expected to see resentment blossom , but he did not resent it . |
| 6 | ‘ Mrs Wimbush tells me you expected to find Thorn House still a maternity home . |
| 7 | It was the day before we expected to see Treasure Island . |
| 8 | We expected to have security problems with Mrs Thatcher , but in fact they were nothing compared with those posed by the other guest on that show — Barry Manilow . |
| 9 | Bernard was at the least reckoning an ambitious yeoman , the kind we expect to find purchasing land , like the Chibnalls of Sherington , not selling — unless , of course , he had done so in order to finance the purchase of his lease , or to stock the new and very much bigger farm ; but this is pure speculation . |
| 10 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 11 | As a result of the increase , some banks and building societies said they expected to raise mortgage rates by between 1 and 1.5 per cent , probably from 1 November . |
| 12 | After Maastricht , he expects to raise cohesion funds , to be spent in Europe 's remote corners and bring us all into one happy family . |
| 13 | Microsoft did n't fail to make the point that it expects to take market share away from Novell because NT includes networking while at the same time trouncing Unix . |
| 14 | It expects to get venture funding of $2m–$4m over the summer when it will start shipping . |
| 15 | It expects to get venture funding of $2m to $4m over the summer when it will start shipping . |
| 16 | But Cadbury Schweppes , which last month completed the £141m purchase of Crush International from Procter & Gamble , says the brand values being acquired justified the price and it expects to find synergy benefits with its own extensive bottling operations in Spain and Portugal . |