Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [pron] [noun pl] " 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 expect his notes went into the university archives , and the rest of his belongings would have been sold off . |
| 3 | I expect his spies will tell him , though . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Look , I expect my friends are happy enough here , so if you could just , you know , set me down somewhere — ’ |
| 5 | I expect my employees to keep their minds on the job ! |
| 6 | Oliver said when I told him this story rather hesitatingly , though I expect my nerves were to do with talking about Gillian . |
| 7 | ‘ I expect my guests to be polite , señorita , ’ he informed her icily . |
| 8 | I expect your parents are dead , are n't they ? |
| 9 | I expect your clothes will be dry enough to brush clean by the time you 've finished . |
| 10 | How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job ? |
| 11 | She expected my clothes to be bloodstained ! ’ |
| 12 | You expect your parents to be superhuman , and they expect you to be kids forever . |
| 13 | Note your own interpretation of the sequence , then make a note of the interpretations you expect your students to make . |
| 14 | So what time do you expect your friends home this evening ? |
| 15 | I can argue that Greenfield does not make this explicit because she is taking for granted conventions that she herself has learnt in the western education system and which she expects her readers to share . |
| 16 | ‘ We expected you days ago . |
| 17 | Most of the time we communicate verbally to each other , and we expect our horses to do the same . |
| 18 | In the first quarter of this year we 've seen more moderate growth in those geographical areas but in nineteen eighty nine nearly forty percent of Pearson 's trading ca profit came from economies outside the U K and North America and we expect our activities in these other areas to continue to grow at a satisfactory rate . |
| 19 | Today we expect our stars to have social consciences and wide-ranging opinions . |
| 20 | The monks of the Middle Ages used to practise ‘ divine reading ’ , which meant that they expected their lives to be transformed as a result of what they read . |
| 21 | The characteristic Christian theme was most at variance with pagan assumptions in that bishops asked husbands to be as faithful to their wives as they expected their wives to be to them . |
| 22 | I mean starting from the way children go to school in the morning — they expect their parents to take them quite often , and to contribute to pollution . |
| 23 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
| 24 | He expected his troops would take two more towns and said his fighters now controlled the whole of Highway 69 , along the Thai frontier , north of Sisophon . |
| 25 | Samuel Oldknow was generally regarded as a humane employer , but even he expected his apprentices to work for thirteen hours . |
| 26 | He has not told the House how much he expects his proposals to cost , both in the pilot phase , when adult credits will be paid to a quarter of a million people , and later when he hopes to extend the scheme across the country . |
| 27 | Mountain View , California-based Parallan Computer Inc says it expects its shipments of manufactured products to IBM Corp to fall , because it expects IBM to assume manufacturing responsibilities for the PS/2 Server 295 this year — the jump in its first quarter sales ( see page five ) was primarily down to increased ships to IBM , it said . |
| 28 | Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc warns that it expects its results for the third quarter to March 31 to be at break-even or slightly below — it expects to increase reserves and allowances , take one-time charges , and accelerate accruals by a pre-tax total of $1.5m to $2m , and it expects third quarter revenues to be below year-ago revenues of $20.3m ; it blames a shift in the sales mix for the revenue shortfall — ‘ Given the current trend toward the LANtastic software only option , the company is cautious in its expectations over the next several quarters for recovery in revenues and earnings to the levels achieved in the first and second quarter of the fiscal year , ’ the company said — it also offers it with adaptors . |
| 29 | I do not think that any one of us expects our children to walk out of the place ‘ normal ’ , but we do know that it is the best place in the world for them to achieve their fullest potential . |