Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a B M X bike I expect . |
| 2 | Well in that case I expect , you know , some of us could become a caretaker if they 're having to pay us |
| 3 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 4 | She was Jonah I expect . |
| 5 | ‘ Comes of having a mathematical mind I expect , ’ observed Milton . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , with your mind I expect you can , ’ he teased . |
| 7 | Next day we found a good army doctor who examined Rachel and said with care she would soon be well , the M & B had done its work , and then to add to our trouble you all went down with scarlet fever — caught on the boat I expect . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'm so glad you did n't disappoint me — just the greeting I expected . |
| 10 | In the pouring bloody rain and howling wind I expect . |
| 11 | Always ready to look on the bright side she expected that the remission would last for a long time , and there was a conspiracy between Maureen and her mother to conceal Julia 's suffering from her . |
| 12 | When you join the Royal Air Force you expect to work on some of the world 's deadliest aircraft , Jaguar Fighters , and harriers , but there 's another side to aviation . |
| 13 | The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability . |
| 14 | ‘ Have you finished ? ’ they ask as you lie gasping , and when they switch on the light you expect to see a sign over the bed , NOW WASH YOUR HANDS . |
| 15 | In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child . |
| 16 | As readers we expect such a persona to describe a scene , dramatise some situation , and express feelings . |
| 17 | In the near future we expect to recruit an Asia Pacific representative who will enable us to expand further in this region . |
| 18 | Ring the flat , will you , Myra , and ask … no , tell Dana we expect her here in an hour for a rehearsal ? |
| 19 | Over the next twelve months we expect a further increase in those needing our Home Care service to enable them to live and die at home . |
| 20 | However , having made an investment they expected it to pay its way and any development towards being a full-time farmer would depend very much on market prices . |
| 21 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 22 | When anything like this happens in Waldron City everybody starts shouting for action , and as they have n't much idea just what kind of action they expect they take it out on the administration , and that means Wilson . |
| 23 | Predicting : students look at the title of the passage and discuss their expectations in pairs ; they then write down ten words they expect to find ; they then read the passage and see if their words appear . |
| 24 | The other one of the , one of the things that people find very difficult , the learning all the words they expect you to know . |
| 25 | The leaders were to receive wages for their men for six months , and for the rest of the year they were to pay the troops out of the ransoms they expected to take . |
| 26 | They propose to research the patterns of socialization operating within the evangelical-baptist culture and thereby to investigate the effect on educational achievement of the cluster of variables they expect to uncover as emphasis on bible study and abstention from aspects of secular culture . |
| 27 | In 1710 financiers in the City of London had formed the South Sea Company to bid for the right to use the privileges they expected Britain to get at the end of the war . |
| 28 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what revenue he expects from the proceeds of privatisation for the period of the public expenditure survey . |
| 29 | The players have now scored 70 goals between them for Rangers in all competitions this season , though McCoist was jocularly chided by his manager as he attempted to reply to the unanswerable question , posed him by a foreign journalist , of how many goals he expected to score tonight . |
| 30 | Alex ! ’ he cried out , not knowing what reply he expected . |