Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do as the Russians want and hand over all these prisoners to them whether or not the prisoners are willing to go back to Russia , we are … sending some of them to their death ; and although in war we can not , as you point out … afford to be sentimental , I confess that I find the prospect somewhat revolting , and I should expect public opinion to reflect the same feeling … |
| 2 | ‘ You mean , I dare say , that , having given you supper , I might expect payment in kind . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll expect results . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't want to come here too often , but I 'll expect messages from you in the usual way . |
| 5 | I 'd expect Tracy would want one , do n't you queue up |
| 6 | Cos if it was as long as three hours , then I 'd expect Julie would have had to program them in for it would n't she . |
| 7 | In return for the risk we undertake , which clearly a contingency fee basis gives rise to , I would expect KPMG Peat Marwick be appointed auditors to the Group and to any Newco , on the understanding that our fee will be consistent with market rates and with the audit fee which the target has borne . |
| 8 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 9 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 10 | I think it was very very important as well for Leicester to get a goal while they 're having a good good spell because er there 's no there 's no doubt I would expect Forest to put a far more sustained pressure on the second half with the wind in their backs . |
| 11 | I mean I would n't , would n't expect , I would expect Paula |
| 12 | But Dennis Oliver , the man leading the MCC rebels in their bid to get the vote of no confidence at next month 's meeting of all 17,500 MCC members was equally defiant , saying : ‘ We are going ahead full steam with our campaign , and if we win the vote I would expect Dexter and the selectors to resign . ’ |
| 13 | I would expect Jamie or Gary to be better matches . ’ |
| 14 | But I shall expect film directors to call me Sir Anthony . |
| 15 | ‘ I will bring the shoes I am making for you now , the ones with the amethysts as decoration and I will expect payment for the work I 've done , mind . |
| 16 | You may expect direction and advice which will not be forthcoming . |
| 17 | Power was indeed divided , in such a way as to place restraints upon popularly elected assemblies ; and it was the view of Hamilton that a representative democracy avoided the dangers clearly inherent in " simple democracy " : When the deliberative or judicial powers are vested wholly or partly in the collective body of the people , you must expect error , confusion and instability . |
| 18 | ‘ If you will make such a mystery man of yourself , ’ Robbie retorted , ‘ you must expect people to be curious . ’ |
| 19 | If you live here you should expect country noises . ’ |
| 20 | You might expect air conditioning , leather seats and at least a stereo when you pay over £50,000 for a car , but not if it 's a Mercedes you 're buying . |
| 21 | Explain why you might expect division to perform better than a ‘ perfect ’ randomizing algorithm , and by how much . |
| 22 | You might expect Ashley Newton to agree with Clarke . |
| 23 | ‘ There are a lot of things that you might expect people to do as part of a normal lifestyle and those are the things that we should invest our time in doing first , I think , before we organise any activity on their behalf . |
| 24 | You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations . |
| 25 | Explain why you might expect security betas to change over time . |
| 26 | It was a rough grey face , full of rifts and clefts and fissures , out of which , someone said , you might expect lichens to grow . |
| 27 | You might expect leopards to keep away from forest tracks frequented by humans but they often use them for preference . |
| 28 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 29 | I , I , well I am afraid that the people who have been audited are exactly the people , I mean you would expect Ian and Tanya certainly to be good , you 'd expect Philip to be good would n't you and Susannah , and Lyn , perhaps less so . |
| 30 | Neither semantics nor logic requires V P structure , a priori , that is there 's no particular reason why you 'd expect verb phrase structuring in particular from either of those two enterprises , because either could get by with er either the flat structure Florence teased Dougal , that 's the structure in T three three separate constituents , or teased Florence Dougal where teased is one constituent and Florence Dougal is another which is the way we most standardly do it calculus and that works fine . |