Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not mean by this that I expect managers to cry , or to clasp one another like footballers after a goal has been won . |
| 2 | His share was a good quarter of the capital provided for the voyage , so I expect returns . ’ |
| 3 | Again , I urge the House to consider the fact that we expect inspections of individual schools to take place on a four to five-yearly basis . |
| 4 | Fundamentalists believe so totally in the reality of their message and of the Jesus they preach that they expect lives to be touched and changed . |
| 5 | What is more , they are probably paying for their own lessons , so they expect results . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've lost four clients out of a total of 1,800 and I expect others will drift away , but we picked up a new client just this morning . ’ |
| 7 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And we expect others to keep coming forward . ’ |
| 9 | Yet customers walk through an entrance with 24ft stone pillars to reach our bar and they expect prices to be high in such an environment . ’ |
| 10 | After all , football left leather behind long ago , but I expect cricketers will be up in arms about this suggestion . |
| 11 | But that is precisely what happens when we expect plants to live and thrive , not as nature intended , but on chemical fertilizers . |