Example sentences of "[pron] expect to find [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows . |
| 2 | I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows . |
| 3 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 4 | They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty . |
| 5 | Then , by a slow , gradual process , they get to a point where they expect to find ritual sexual abuse in the community in which they are working . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ John is gone across the Liverpool Plains to the Namoi ’ , wrote Eliza to her mother on 6 December from Yarrundi , ‘ he expects to find much to interest him there . |
| 7 | When a new government takes office and opens the Defence books , it expects to find ample room for change and improvement . |