Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expected my times at Marseille to be measured in years and months , not weeks and days . |
| 2 | I have been a machine knitter for about 20 years and I still remember those early garments which I expected my family to wear . |
| 3 | I expect my wife used it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I expect my mum would like him , ’ Sandy said . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , I expect my friends are happy enough here , so if you could just , you know , set me down somewhere — ’ |
| 6 | I expect my employees to keep their minds on the job ! |
| 7 | Oliver said when I told him this story rather hesitatingly , though I expect my nerves were to do with talking about Gillian . |
| 8 | I expect my car to be |
| 9 | ‘ I expect my guests to be polite , señorita , ’ he informed her icily . |
| 10 | For the rest of the year , for 358 days , I expect my mind to achieve autonomy over my problems and I plod on while life with a capital L proceeds independently of me . |
| 11 | When they visit I expect my husband to be polite to them . |
| 12 | HEARD in a City tavern last night : ‘ I expect my husband to be just the same in 20 years time as he is now . ’ |
| 13 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
| 14 | I expect my aunt meant well ; I guess it might just have been one of her spasmodic assumptions of authority in the family — out of character and dramatic as these assumptions usually were . |
| 15 | I expect my job 's gone now . |
| 16 | What can I expect my hotel room to be like ? |
| 17 | How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job ? |
| 18 | She expected my clothes to be bloodstained ! ’ |