Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josh does n't have much of an appetite at present , but I expect the boys will be hungry when they get home from school . ’ |
| 2 | Erm yeah I expect the answers will be at the back . |
| 3 | I expect the improvements in services that Londoners should see in the coming years to speak for themselves , but there is no room for complacency . |
| 4 | I expect the conditions in some of the houses you went into were , were er pretty poor . |
| 5 | The Economist circulation is now five hundred and twenty five thousand each week , and although their er year is out of sync with ours , I expect the profits for the year to be at or near record levels once again . |
| 6 | Wednesday is Fantasy day in the Torygraph so I expect the details to be in there again next week , as nothing more will have happened by then fantasy-wise cos there are no Premiership games . |
| 7 | ‘ I expect the humans are wondering who 's causing all this trouble . ’ |
| 8 | You expect the servants to nick the silver , not the guests . ’ |
| 9 | You expect the attendants to look like Peter Cushing . |
| 10 | This is a meandering , innocent instrumental structured so that , at any moment , you expect the vocals to drop in and the ‘ song ’ -proper to begin , but you know it never needs to . |
| 11 | As we look in closer to the centre , we expect the stars to be more closely packed together , and in this central pan of IRS 16 the infrared radiation comes from thousands of ordinary stars packed into a region only a hundred times larger than the Solar System . |
| 12 | Telnitz is some way ahead of you ; we expect the forces there to take the initial impact of the assault . ’ |
| 13 | We expect the authorities to come up with imaginative schemes , designed to tackle specific local crime problems , such as kerb crawling , mugging and burglary . |
| 14 | We expect the findings the final findings to be in the Autumn of this year now . |
| 15 | We expect the away-days to be 13 October and 8 December 1990 , and 19 January and 16 March 1991 . |
| 16 | They are , in part , inevitable in writing , especially when the writer is thinking hard , and may be missed when the piece is proof-read , because we expect the words to be correct , and read them as though they were . |
| 17 | Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers ; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumber carnivores . |
| 18 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |