Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 2 | Advanced Micro will have a fifth generation microprocessor on the market in 1995 , and other areas were also performing well , with strong sales in non-volatile Flash memory products , where he expected revenues to jump to $200m in 1993 from $45m in 1992 . |
| 3 | Did your husband , on his return to this country , where he expected to be reunited with his wife and family , like the houseboat Grace very much ? " |
| 4 | He is wearing the familiar Puttnam cardigan look , but is smaller than I expected , like so many who are writ large in the media . |
| 5 | He was rather braver than I expected and jumped the fences very well . |
| 6 | It is less imposing and less impressive than I expected and is bordered by similarly styled ‘ cabins ’ . |
| 7 | The march was longer than I expected and we staggered in at half past six this morning , having done twenty-seven miles in just over nine hours , which is n't bad . |
| 8 | ‘ But it was ten times more difficult than I expected . |
| 9 | The scene of life , Bransby ’ , continued he , ‘ is drawing to a close : although my career has been a most happy one , I feel much less regret than I expected in leaving it , for I have full confidence in the mercy of God . ’ |
| 10 | Okay , its three-litre V6 engine was reasonably lusty and the lack of buffeting with the hood down was impressive , but the chassis was even less inspiring than I expected . |
| 11 | ‘ The response was more vociferously negative than I expected . |
| 12 | ‘ Much nicer than I expected from the particulars , ’ she added . |
| 13 | An example : Dave : There are more people than I expected here . |
| 14 | I have found much more concern with status in industry than I expected — it 's just not so easy to identify for a newcomer . |
| 15 | Senna explained his version of the collision , saying : ‘ Nigel and I had passed the car that had been holding us up and then he braked earlier than I expected . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ Things went no better or worse than I expected : I 'm getting that sort of treatment every game now and it 's up to me to overcome it . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've got a much bigger nose than I expected , Michael , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I would n't say I enjoyed it , but it went much better than I expected and my audience were very appreciative . |
| 19 | ‘ The area is far more rugged and wild than I expected and some of the ridge walking has been spectacular ’ Paul told us from Italy . |
| 20 | Pitching : the flysheet is erected first and took a little longer than I expected to up on my own — six minutes . |
| 21 | ‘ Much younger than I expected . |
| 22 | ‘ They are much smaller than I expected ’ is the usual remark from people seeing puffins for the first time . |
| 23 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 24 | ‘ The trouble is Jan 's so wound up and Santa Eulalia 's busier than I expected . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It went on longer than I expected . ’ |
| 26 | The names worked even better than I expected . |
| 27 | He 's much taller than I expected . ’ |
| 28 | This was much more than I expected when I first had the idea in 1982 of writing a popular book about the universe . |
| 29 | But a bit better than I expected . |
| 30 | Even so , it cost me rather more of my American dollars than I expected . |