Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I expect the draper made an extra ⅛ penny on each transaction , not a fortune but could lead to one in a lifetime of trading . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I expect the cab weighs a ton , but the whole kit is still very portable , size-wise . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | I expect the crew had tiptoed down very gently from the bunk above while he slept . |
| 10 | I expect the team to look like this : - |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | I expect the oven 's turned off . |
| 13 | How far can I expect the audience to share the desired meaning of the work ? |
| 14 | The traffic going to Mr McGiffert 's shopping complex did not wreak havoc on the Ringdufferin Road , nor would I expect the traffic going to the golf course to do so . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |
| 17 | You should tell him what you expect the equipment to do and the duty cycle or period involved . |
| 18 | You expect the bank to get it right . |
| 19 | ‘ But you 'll have to remember that under no circumstances at all can you expect the spell to last longer than seven days . |
| 20 | When do you expect the Government to start their review of the nuclear industry ? |
| 21 | What do you expect the training to do for you ? |
| 22 | And if I ca n't make her open up , how do you expect the doctor to do so ? ’ |
| 23 | The ward sister can explain what she expects the nurse to learn during the allocation , and can set objectives . |
| 24 | As a physical description , we expect the passage to contain a large number of physical , concrete nouns ( stakes , bamboo , fences , fishermen , ruins , etc ) but what is more striking is that these concrete nouns are matched by nouns which are more abstract in one way or another . |
| 25 | In such cases we expect the duration to increase if the intervention is being effective . |
| 26 | Organisations have many different objectives and engage in a variety of activities , so there is a problem in defining an initial perspective on organisation theory and what we expect the theory to cover . |
| 27 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 28 | In return , we expect the industry to fight for its share of the electricity market by improved productivity . |
| 29 | When can we expect the Government to announce the subventions for next year ? |
| 30 | ‘ A fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay ’ was their motto and , if they expected the pay to satisfy them , they also confidently expected the work to satisfy everybody , including themselves . |