Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to see a huge hound , but not a creature like this . |
| 2 | I expected to find a tiny shrunken corpse . |
| 3 | I expected to find a privileged crew , tolerating me for some positive press . |
| 4 | Over the coming months I expect to see the Inland Revenue , the Customs and Excise and the DTI increasingly at work in an area ripe for their activities . |
| 5 | I am not so green that I expect to get the sole credit on this movie . |
| 6 | I expect to read a full and objective description of what 's on the site now , together with a documented reconstruction of how it came to be like that . |
| 7 | She was dismayed to see these strangers accosting her when she expected to see an old man in a cowboy hat with a black and white photograph face . |
| 8 | She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive … |
| 9 | She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive … |
| 10 | When the operation is over and after nine weeks the plaster comes off , you expect to see a wasted thin limb . |
| 11 | Who would you expect to have the major input into the decision-making process in the following areas ? |
| 12 | How could she expect to do a proper job without the right equipment ? |
| 13 | Mr Jimmy Airlie , secretary of the Ford union side , said : ‘ We expected to get a favourable majority . |
| 14 | Naturally we expect to see a fair share of lottery revenue coming to Scotland . |
| 15 | We expect to have an important debate tomorrow afternoon on the 20 per cent . |
| 16 | We have returns so far from sixty five per cent of the schools and we expect to have the remaining schools before the end of the month , I would n't expect it to change from where we are at the moment but if there was a significant variation then I will be in a position to report back to the Policy Committee at the end of the month but I 'm , I 'm not expecting that need be the case . |
| 17 | We expect to find a guilty incident or relationship because he writes continually of guilt ; we expect to find sin because he speaks of atonement and expiation . |
| 18 | We expect to find the missing information in the largely unexplored group of algae and protozoans . |
| 19 | Can we expect to find the fundamental and universal principles in development ? |
| 20 | However , directors of the 60 per cent-owned member of Robert Maxwell 's stable of companies , said they expected to maintain a final year dividend of 3p ‘ in view of the satisfactory progress ’ of Pergamon 's £90m-plus disposal programme . |
| 21 | When Habitat decided to launch its incredibly successful range of glass tableware in the US , it expected to take the American market by storm . |
| 22 | The main opposition group , the National League for Democracy , said it expected to have an absolute majority when the final results are compiled in about three weeks . |
| 23 | He said the emphasis on staff training meant that in May it expected to gain the prestigious BS5750 award for the quality of care it provides . |
| 24 | He invented the morning press conference for the purpose of calling an afternoon press conference to say he expected to make a shattering announcement later in the day . ’ |
| 25 | The board says it expects to hold the total dividend for the year to April at 8.3p , and the shares fell 12p to 288p on the cash-call news . |
| 26 | El Segundo , California-based Computer Sciences Corp says it expects to record a net gain of about $5m in the first quarter of fiscal 1994 on adoption of a new accounting rule covering income tax reporting . |
| 27 | Sparc-builder , Unix Solutions Ltd , Dunstable , Bedfordshire , says it expects to receive an initial Sun Microsystems Inc IPX-type workstation from its US partner , the Colombus , Ohio-based Pinnacle Data Systems , by the second week in August . |
| 28 | The purchase price will be paid in either cash and three-year promissory notes or all cash , but it expects to pay a significant portion with the three-year notes . |
| 29 | It says it expects to incur a one-time charge of about $8.0m in its fiscal fourth quarter to March 31 to cover the extra costs and charges related to restructuring the integrated operations of the two firms . |
| 30 | Philips Electronics NV 's Interactive Media Systems group says it expects to launch a whole range of new products based on Compact Disk-Interactive technology , starting with a CD-I player in September to run full-motion video so that users could alter the plot of a movie . |