Example sentences of "they expect [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , it could be very profitable : PR firms set an inflated value on their own services , and they expected others to do the same . |
| 2 | In 1710 financiers in the City of London had formed the South Sea Company to bid for the right to use the privileges they expected Britain to get at the end of the war . |
| 3 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 4 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 5 | They expected diamonds to have a single atomic structure . |
| 6 | They all wanted flattery and nonsense and if they did anything that was n't right they expected people to cover up for them . |
| 7 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |
| 8 | Going from there to , and that 's a sort of history of where things have happened over the previous four mon four months , to expectations about output this is the first survey since the recession began in which all regions , mainland regions of the U K say that they expect output to increase over the coming four months . |
| 9 | ‘ Why they expect women to surrender theirs , without a pang , I will never know . ’ |
| 10 | DSP seems a particularly important topic since it represents the doorway between the way that people do things and the tasks which they expect electronics to do . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't earn any money and they expect Scott to pay . |
| 12 | They expect pleasure to cost money . |
| 13 | Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 . |
| 14 | Though they are predicting that the German economy will shrink for the year , they expect growth to resume in the fourth quarter . |
| 15 | How do they expect people to visit ? ’ |