Example sentences of "expect [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I expect that lot belonged to her late husband . ’
2 Er , and I expect that margin to continue rising and be much higher again next year , so the medicine is working there .
3 How do you know whether anything has been a success , or whether you 're doing anything right , unless you ask , and we expect this rationale to follow through into our community investment programme .
4 ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick .
5 I expect some people watching might think that wo wo football is a boy 's game , rather than a girl 's game , but of course that is n't the tradition is it ?
6 Pluralists and some Marxists expect such institutions to indoctrinate policy-influentials with the need to perform their organizationally defined roles .
7 In the case of major company resources it is fair to say that the very large companies invest millions in their computer systems and they expect these systems to have a life span of at least a decade .
8 We expect all parents to support our aims fully and to uphold our Catholic ethos .
9 Voters expect all governments to put up taxes .
10 I expect many mothers have had the experience of standing at the sink washing and re-washing dishes because a teenage son or daughter is standing in the kitchen talking about something important , and once the dish-washing is over , he or she will go away .
11 But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn .
12 You expect most candidates to make you offers and promises — that would be the old way .
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