Example sentences of "know [pron] be expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know I was expected . |
| 2 | Something , something in her friend 's tense attitude seemed to say that she did n't want her visitor to know she was expected elsewhere . |
| 3 | Most media professionals appear to know what is expected of them in their various organisations , each of which has different political backers , and the media product tends to be created accordingly . |
| 4 | It would enable staff to know what was expected of them , to have professional support and encouragement and opportunities provided for future improvement . |
| 5 | Constance , on her side , had become sufficiently worldly to know what was expected of her when she returned home . |
| 6 | ‘ Winters always wanted to know what was expected of him ’ , recalls Roger Uttley . |
| 7 | No one can please all the people around them , partly because they will never know what is expected of them . |
| 8 | And you know I was expecting to share Water Gypsy with Fenella . ’ |
| 9 | How much you know you 're expecting to do , part time , full time etcetera . |
| 10 | However , now that I know you 're expecting a baby , I think we 've got some planning to do . |
| 11 | You have to go through a short course at the R A F College Cranwell and then once that that teaches you the R A F side of it makes you into an officer because at the end of the day you maybe there to do public relations but if the spaghetti hits the fan you 're an officer and you 're a combatant and you know you carry a gun around when you 're in a war zone and you know you 're expected to use it and if the senior officer of the unit next to you gets shot and you 're the most senior officer then you take over |
| 12 | Make sure staff know what is expected of them — a responsible attitude towards drinking , standards of work performance and so on . |
| 13 | But feasibility studies have been carried out and we should be in a position to act when we know what is expected . ’ |
| 14 | Every manager has a responsibility towards his subordinates ( ie to make sure they know what is expected of them , to help them set their own objectives , to help them attain their objectives , to offer counsel and advice etc ) . |
| 15 | Every manager has a responsibility towards his subordinates ( ie to make sure they know what is expected of them , to help them set their own objectives , to help them attain their objectives , to offer counsel and advice etc ) . |
| 16 | The documents were prepared by the Law Society 's Race Relations Committee to ensure that all candidates for the judiciary know what is expected of them . |
| 17 | As always they know what is expected from them . ’ |
| 18 | Even if they are what you think they are , rival agents , how could they have known you were expecting a letter , and how could they have known you were expecting it on that particular night ? ’ |
| 19 | Even if they are what you think they are , rival agents , how could they have known you were expecting a letter , and how could they have known you were expecting it on that particular night ? ’ |
| 20 | But surely even having second thoughts about marriage was n't enough to prompt that kind of reaction , particularly as Isabelle must have known she was expecting Fabien 's child . |
| 21 | You knew I was expecting to stay at the hotel , and that was the only reason I agreed to come with you . |
| 22 | Before anything else , I knew I was expected . |
| 23 | He wore a pleased but modest look and Lili looked as though she knew she was expected to appear proud . |
| 24 | The white woman knew she was expected to offer a solution , some medical advance that would undo the damage to her friend 's body , to her life . |
| 25 | Go and enjoy yourselves , ’ adding , with a gravelly laugh , as if he knew they were expecting something else : ‘ There 'll be no collection tonight . ‘ |
| 26 | At home in London she rarely bothered with such irrelevances ; here she knew it was expected of her and accordingly she had showered , dumped her travel-weary jeans into the laundry basket from which they would be rescued by a maid , washed , ironed and returned to her next day , and dressed herself in a loose silk jersey jacket and pants suit , simple and easy enough to please her yet enough of a transformation to satisfy her father and Sally . |
| 27 | Work is too important and too unsure to be obstructed by the uncertainties of not knowing what is expected and by whom , and by having to continually negotiate what one can do with individual power players . |
| 28 | By this time every gentleman knew what was expected of him : Cameron never dismounted , he leaned from the saddle and passed the paper down to the angry , helpless proprietor and took it back signed . |
| 29 | After you 'd come to terms with everything and knew what was expected , life became easier . |
| 30 | Psychogenic reactions on food testing ( see p 148 ) can occur just as easily in children as in adults , and if knows he is expected to go wild when he tries milk he may well oblige . |