Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [adj] [noun] [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 At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet .
3 I expected this place to be in chaos — instead , it 's an oasis of calm .
4 In other words , Dr Blake , I expect one-hundred-per-cent support from every member of this team . ’
5 I expect young people of today would rate the fair rides of the early 1920 's quite tame affairs .
6 I expect most women of your age have had lovers ; not so many would admit it . ’
7 I expect underlying inflation to be 3.75 per cent at the end of this year , close to the top of its target range .
8 I expect next week to be your last chance to register before the shut-off date .
9 Anyway , why should n't I expect high standards from them ?
10 Since their work on cats had conditioned them to expect all parts of the visual cortex to contain orientation selective cells this oversight is , perhaps , understandable .
11 ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’
12 ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name .
13 erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem .
14 You expect such tactics with cars nearing the end of their life , not with models just months old .
15 If you expect larger numbers of simultaneous QA activities , increase this parameter before running CREFDL .
16 If you expect heavy use of Offline ( which will be particularly the case if you are not using the Module Version Deletion facility ) , you should probably increase this parameter before running CREFDL .
17 it is , is the policy i i is , is would you need to set this up as , as it being a long term I E ho how quickly would you expect that kind of process to work through ?
18 Obviously cold injury is far more common when would you expect cold injury to be common ?
19 You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling .
20 Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case .
21 Anyway , at Stevenage Town Hall we told Ralph that we expected some money for these .
22 We expect great things of you . ’
23 Not only that but we expect that reward to be a fair and just one .
24 If we work extra hard for our employers we expect some kind of reward in return .
25 We expect some account of Sicilian civilization and resources , some description of the fortifications of Syracuse , the temples ( an index of prosperity ) of Akragas , or the revenues derived from the subjugated interior ; something , in fact , like Herodotus book ii , about Egypt , which introduced the invasion by the Persian king Kambyses .
26 We expect this exhibition to be of particular interest to sports administrators and physiotherapists .
27 I confirm that there is still time for organisations to respond to our proposals and we expect more representations during the consultation period .
28 Hence , if the neutral theory is true , we expect those proteins with the most complex and precise functions to evolve slowest .
29 We expect sponsored MPs to be present at important votes , and particularly on these occasions when our members are likely to be infect affected .
30 We expect sweeping changes at IBM to be announced shortly and we believe that if possible , IBM will introduce changes in equity ownership , ’ Merrill Lynch & Co analyst Dan Mandresh told investment clients in a report .
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