Example sentences of "[pron] to expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Am I to expect ravishment now , or something similar ? |
| 2 | You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT . |
| 3 | The room was not as grand as the corridor had led them to expect , but it was of reasonable size . |
| 4 | On top of that is the fact that the society and type of education they have received both led them to expect wage employment — probably in an office … . |
| 5 | ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’ |
| 6 | Since their work on cats had conditioned them to expect all parts of the visual cortex to contain orientation selective cells this oversight is , perhaps , understandable . |
| 7 | His mother 's fluent , though inaccurate , English and confident manner may have led them to expect more of him . |
| 8 | Instead of finding there a source of order which their theories would lead them to expect , they are shocked and insulted to find yet another example of lack of strength . |
| 9 | Where the indicators of a thriving community life are ostensibly absent , they may even try to create the ‘ community ’ which their preconceptions of rural life have led them to expect . |
| 10 | All the preparations , all the propaganda , had led them to expect Herr Hitler to start it with a bang , an airborne cataclysm , probably with fire and with deadly gas . |
| 11 | Her party 's platform is imbued with religious themes and ethnic Hungarians — different from the majority of the Romanians in religion , language and traditions — have nothing to expect from this religious revival . |
| 12 | But with grown-ups there is nothing to expect any more . |
| 13 | It was n't as though either of these men had led me to expect anything , gave me anything to hope for , it 's just that I really liked them , particularly the one I encountered later on . |
| 14 | My solicitor told me to expect at least four years because of my previous convictions : I 've got deception , deception , fraud , grievous bodily harm , assault , malicious wounding , drugs , deception and then again deception . |
| 15 | " Assistant Commissioner Seddon told me to expect you , " he said . |
| 16 | Fielding had told me to expect trouble from Lorne on several counts . |
| 17 | ’ But we had fun together , George and I. That was all he wanted , all he ever led me to expect . |
| 18 | But it was foolish — unreasonable of me to expect … ’ |
| 19 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 20 | ‘ It never occurred to me to expect payment , ’ she repeated . |
| 21 | Had he not known who to expect , he would not have recognised his friend . |
| 22 | Primal Scream Not a name which would lead you to expect self-absorbed acoustic doodlings . |
| 23 | Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case . |
| 24 | Economic theory would lead you to expect a net gain even in the EC — making it possible to compensate Western Europe 's producers for their losses and still show a gain for consumers and taxpayers . |
| 25 | All of which helps to explain why Mr Kohl 's chances of winning re-election do not look as bad as a shrinking economy , growing budget deficit , and foreign-policy gridlock might lead you to expect . |
| 26 | It is quite unrealistic to think that you can spend every waking moment working , but it is equally unrealistic to have hobbies and interests which fill every evening and the weekend and for you to expect to pass the course . |
| 27 | ‘ Lowering of you to expect me to remember . |
| 28 | ‘ Did his general condition lead you to expect something of the sort ? ’ |
| 29 | And yet the treatment of his characters is not exactly what that prefatory article of his might have led one to expect . |
| 30 | Contrary to what folk models of the RUC might lead one to expect , most policemen and women at Easton have not even drawn their gun , let alone fired it . |