Example sentences of "[coord] expect [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He regularly came home drunk and expected his wife to do everything he told her . |
| 2 | Frank Howard , defending , said Millman had been drinking to celebrate his birthday and expected his girlfriend to drive him home at the end of the night . |
| 3 | Only a very few of the many references in the bibliography are earlier than 1979 yet undergraduates are already arriving at university with first-hand experience of videotext and expect their lecturers to know more ! |
| 4 | Countries like Brazil , Mexico or Tanzania ca n't simply write checks in cruzados , pesos or shillings and expect their creditors to be happy . |
| 5 | Brief your participants that you will be conducting the meeting this way and expect their co-operation . |
| 6 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 7 | Put you in that — that kiosk — and expect your parishioners to admire your humility ? |
| 8 | Francis Bacon who put money into an unsuccessful company to colonize Newfoundland wrote in his essay On Plantations ( the word used then and for most of the seventeenth century for what would later be called colonies ) ‘ You must make account to lose almost twenty years profit , and expect your recompense in the end . ’ |
| 9 | ICI supplies large quantities of ‘ Propathene ’ for all of those applications [ including , of course , its own ‘ Propafilm ’ ] and expects their growth to continue [ though perhaps at a slower rate than in the immediate past ] . |