Example sentences of "expect [pers pn] [to-vb] [art] [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 | I think my father 's authority was irrational because he expected me to have no other interests outside my schoolwork . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 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 | Send a man into the field only half-armed with the facts and expect him to do a professional job . |
| 9 | We do n't believe he was infectious before May 21 and we expect him to make a complete recovery . |
| 10 | Philip Giles fell more than thirty feet onto a hillside while on holdiay in California but doctors expect him to make a full recovery . |
| 11 | Cornelius signalled by a flicker of one eyebrow that he knew Harry had expected him to say the exact reverse . |
| 12 | The company had expected it to show a quantifiable benefit by reducing absenteeism and labour turnover , and by easing the production control difficulties caused by the inflexibilities of the line system . |
| 13 | However , analysts still expect it to manage a small improvement on 1991 's profits and dividend . |
| 14 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 15 | Although languages differ in the extent to which they regularly specify the gender of human referents ( cf. English they and French ils/elles ) , we all readily recognize the distinction and expect it to reflect a genuine aspect of experience . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In order to train new teachers and support qualified teachers with further In-Service training , we rely heavily on Grant Aid from the Sports Council , who , in turn , expect us to show a steady increase in the number of Society members . |
| 18 | How the hell does he expect me to keep a straight pen ? |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | ‘ I would expect them to do the honourable thing and give me my job back . ’ |
| 21 | You would n't expect them to forecast the same price all the years , right . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ We do set study leave requirements , we do require them to pay study leave tuition fees for the first attempt , we do require them to pay examination fees and we do expect them to pay a reasonable salary . ’ |
| 24 | Likewise , there is no reason why adjectives which are restrictive in attributive position should not be acceptable if used , say , predicatively with the same nouns ; only in that case , we do not normally expect them to have a restrictive value . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Indeed it will probably be harmful , for at the very least the interviewer will expect you to take a positive interest in the job on offer and in the company . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is not unknown for a salesman to describe the product in glowing terms and you would expect him to highlight the best features . |
| 30 | They ca n't really expect him to have a physical game this afternoon can they with David Speedy ? |