Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I expected a wee charge from Middlesbrough early on . |
2 | I expected a high-powered event , with dozens , if not hundreds of people present . |
3 | I 'd therefore grown used to getting a certain amount of respect from other drivers , so when I found one of the clapped-out Toyotas favoured by Asian families in my path one morning I expected a free passage . |
4 | For a moment I expected a knuckle-rapping response , but after a brief hesitation , he said , ‘ My verse was obscure because I was obscure to myself . |
5 | Needless to say , I expect a regular progress report . ’ |
6 | ‘ I am not quite the Hochhauser rapist I am made out to be , but I expect a little peck , just here , on the cheek . ’ |
7 | I expect a Public Sector Borrowing Requirement in the current financial year of £35 billion , slightly lower than projected at the time of my Autumn Statement . |
8 | ‘ I expect an important letter . |
9 | She expected a loud shout of . |
10 | She expected an angry response , and it rather unnerved her when it did n't come . |
11 | You expect a little bit of jostling do n't you when there 's a crowd seen in the penalty box . |
12 | You expect a whole speech of explanation . |
13 | They 're forced into a position of dependence and in fact how do you expect a disabled child to be independent when even their parents are n't ? |
14 | It may not be as easy as surrendering your body to the doctor and simply taking the medicine , nor can you expect an over-night cure . |
15 | Economic theory would lead you to expect a net gain even in the EC — making it possible to compensate Western Europe 's producers for their losses and still show a gain for consumers and taxpayers . |
16 | ‘ Were you expecting an important letter ? ’ |
17 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
18 | ‘ We expected a physical game and we certainly got one . |
19 | Its intensity ( that is , its energy content ) is given by the square of this , so we expect a transmitted fraction of unc as is indeed the case . |
20 | We welcome the emphasis on safety in the North sea , but we expect a parallel prioritisation of the extremely dangerous potential accident sites onshore , and we expect to see an improvement in that situation . |
21 | What we are doing , if we expect a negative outcome , is providing our fear with food from the imagination . |
22 | There should then be no plateaux in the Hall voltage because as more electrons are added to an unfilled Landau level we expect a smooth decrease of the Hall voltage . |
23 | Those ultimate motivations will be the subject of the next section , but here we are interested in exactly what it is that we expect a pragmatic theory to do . |
24 | In the first month of its operation it received 280 inquiries ; but commenting on this figure , a spokesman said : ‘ We expect a dramatic increase in inquiries once head teachers come back from holiday and examine the information we have sent them ’ . |
25 | So can we expect a glorious future where dreams and technology merge or are the implications more sinister ? |
26 | Last night the grieving couple were still baffled by the tragedy that struck down six-year-old Elizabeth a week after doctors said they expected a full recovery from a brain tumour . |
27 | The reaction of local farmers to this disruption of their normal farming activity was to wait the situation out , as they expected a high price for their lands . |
28 | ‘ All the independent analysts are now backing their words with money that they expect a gentle recovery to take root next year . ’ |
29 | They expect a Genoese ship ? |
30 | But as the subject develops we can expect researchers to be more explicit about exactly how they expect a pragmatic theory to be formulated . |