Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it 's , I mean I expected |
| 2 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 3 | Yeah , ah films I mean you expect to go back , but this is , what on earth was that ? |
| 4 | I told her to expect you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But in this job I know what to expect . |
| 6 | And the I suppose they expected to whirl round like that and all go into the er the the boxes . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose you expect me to pay for that drink , do you ? ’ |
| 8 | I suppose I expected him to pounce or something . |
| 9 | I 've watched Casualty on TV often enough , so I knew what to expect at the hospital : lots of furrowed brows and swishing cubicle curtains . |
| 10 | And er but erm I think my erm sort of brief contacts with coming and visiting , when I actually came to live on the flats , erm I I knew what to expect and er and erm I was n't I was n't surprised at erm you know , how what the living conditions were like . |
| 11 | I had been on one of these camps before so I thought that I knew what to expect . |
| 12 | Erm , she died quicker than I think they expected actually , she had cancer of the liver , so I 'm glad she did n't suffer any longer . |
| 13 | " She does n't say so , but at times I think she expects me to although she knows I ca n't . |
| 14 | I think he expected that to be the end of it , since he continued to be surprised and concerned every time lesbianism came up , in whatever form , over the following seven years . |
| 15 | It all went according to plan for her and I think he expected the same for me . |
| 16 | I think you expect me to spell everything out , oh , just hang on for a moment will you Barbara , fine . |
| 17 | At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet . |
| 18 | I said well no I cos I said I expected a co I think she deserved a more than a commended . |
| 19 | I wondered what to expect at my first Annual General Meeting . |