Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected a fanfare to greet me , or at least for Tony to fall to his knees in admiration . |
| 2 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
| 3 | On his return he puzzled me by behaving exactly as I expected an S.S.O. to behave . |
| 4 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 5 | And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter . |
| 6 | With 33% of Britons likely to get cancer and with cancer being the fear it is , I expected the queue to stretch to Weston-super-Mare and beyond . |
| 7 | As for me , the things I expect a computer to do have advanced somewhat . |
| 8 | Suppose that I expect a colleague to give me a lift home this evening , but that her car has a flat battery ; this wo n't stop us , however , because a friend 's car is parked conveniently near with some jump leads which we can use to get her car to start . |
| 9 | In cases of long standing chronic disease I expect the patient to start feeling better within a day or two and certainly would n't continue with a remedy if there was no improvement after a week . |
| 10 | As the economy recovers and the unfavourable short-term effects of the fall in the exchange rate feed through , I expect the deficit to widen this year to £17.5 billion . ’ |
| 11 | One client even received a letter from Harvard Securities saying of Towerbell : " I expect the price to rise to higher levels and will advise further " . |
| 12 | I expect the team to look like this : - |
| 13 | ‘ Nevertheless , conditions in certain markets of importance to Volex give grounds for optimism and I expect the Group to make further progress in the current year . ’ |
| 14 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 15 | Ask what do I expect the nurses to do at the end of the workshop . |
| 16 | How far can I expect the audience to share the desired meaning of the work ? |
| 17 | After her electrifying performance as an obsessive fan who helps Robert De Niro kidnap a talk show host in Martin Scorsese 's 1982 King Of Comedy , she has admitted she expected the phone to ring . |
| 18 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |
| 19 | X marked the spot where you expected a draw to take place . |
| 20 | If you expect a child to write about a personal experience , engagement with that experience has to be regarded as a priority . |
| 21 | ‘ When you expect a deal to happen they may tell you there has been a last minute problem and the people either providing the funds or the guarantee either require a non-performance bond to be put up or require some kind of payment up front to prove you really mean business . |
| 22 | You should tell him what you expect the equipment to do and the duty cycle or period involved . |
| 23 | You expect the bank to get it right . |
| 24 | You expect the servants to nick the silver , not the guests . ’ |
| 25 | You expect the attendants to look like Peter Cushing . |
| 26 | This is a meandering , innocent instrumental structured so that , at any moment , you expect the vocals to drop in and the ‘ song ’ -proper to begin , but you know it never needs to . |
| 27 | But how can you expect a system to solve your problems , if you did n't clarify exactly what they were prior to selection ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ But you 'll have to remember that under no circumstances at all can you expect the spell to last longer than seven days . |
| 29 | What changes would you expect the farmers to make if ( i ) the price of milk fell considerably , ( ii ) the EEC guaranteed price for beef fell sharply ? |
| 30 | ‘ And just when do you expect the cavalry to arrive ? ’ he countered with heavy irony . |