Example sentences of "expect [pron] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon .
2 Abdesselam told the press on July 27 that the elimination of corruption remained a high priority and that " those who paid the price for the measures that have been taken so far are the youth … let no one expect me to make the deprived masses pay any more " .
3 In fact it is just as misleading to ignore the packaging and expect someone to assess the new situation without any help .
4 ‘ But , ’ he went on inexorably , ‘ I had n't expected you to achieve the desired result in one short morning in a strange city .
5 And remember that most insurance companies expect you to pay the first part of any claim — usually £25-£50 .
6 We expect you to observe the general rules of conduct and standards of behaviour as et out below .
7 Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election .
8 Cornelius signalled by a flicker of one eyebrow that he knew Harry had expected him to say the exact reverse .
9 Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally .
10 Can we really expect them to retain the same way of thinking as they had as penniless hopefuls , and if they did would n't that simply be an insipid patronisations ?
11 ‘ I would expect them to do the honourable thing and give me my job back . ’
12 You would n't expect them to forecast the same price all the years , right .
13 I did n't expect them to eat the blue-green stuff — have you smelled it ? but I have a suspicion that it gets a toehold on spots where other algae are already in residence .
14 Mark an ‘ E ’ to indicate those issues which you think demand equal involvement and use your partner 's initials to indicate areas where you would expect them to have the major input .
15 If enzyme deficiencies are at the root of the problem in chemical-sensitive patients then one might expect them to show the same sort of reaction to small amounts of a chemical as normal people show to large amounts of that chemical .
16 That was what stung most of all — the fact that he did n't even expect her to complete the one thing she loved doing in all the world , the one thing she was good at .
17 It is not unknown for a salesman to describe the product in glowing terms and you would expect him to highlight the best features .
18 I 'm not expecting her to do the heavy work .
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