Example sentences of "expected [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-Claude expected me to respect all his fads — especially the fuss and nonsense about the particular brand of coffee-beans he must have , and how he had to grind them himself , give the machine at least one hundred turns , sit comfortably . |
| 2 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 3 | You expected me to hate this one , did n't you ? |
| 4 | I learned , too , that English lesbian feminists expected you to become one of them … you either assimilated or you disintegrated . |
| 5 | They still expected you to come nice and clean with your leggings nice and clean . |
| 6 | You do n't think I expected you to have two hundred pounds on you , do you ? |
| 7 | He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred . |
| 8 | He suggested that the club expected him to score more points . |
| 9 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 10 | If he had ( as we all have ) some purely private thoughts and feelings and relationships and experiences , you expected him to keep those to himself , and not embarrass your dinner-party with them , or even bring them into his poems . |
| 11 | Maggie expected him to look annoyed but he did nothing of the sort . |
| 12 | The set was so tacky she expected it to collapse each time one of the characters came through the door . |
| 13 | ( 1981 , 1983 ) believed that the greenhouse warming should emerge from the noise level of natural climate variability by the end of the century , and expected it to become noticeable during the 1980s . |
| 14 | But within the S S A , the government expected us to have three point nine million receipts . |