Example sentences of "they expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | Neither of them expected it , especially with everyone listening in . |
| 3 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 4 | Well I 'd no room in this shop , there was no erm anywhere to store them expect the man just here see , where the g where they used to keep his car . |
| 5 | The room was not as grand as the corridor had led them to expect , but it was of reasonable size . |
| 6 | On top of that is the fact that the society and type of education they have received both led them to expect wage employment — probably in an office … . |
| 7 | ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’ |
| 8 | Since their work on cats had conditioned them to expect all parts of the visual cortex to contain orientation selective cells this oversight is , perhaps , understandable . |
| 9 | His mother 's fluent , though inaccurate , English and confident manner may have led them to expect more of him . |
| 10 | Instead of finding there a source of order which their theories would lead them to expect , they are shocked and insulted to find yet another example of lack of strength . |
| 11 | Where the indicators of a thriving community life are ostensibly absent , they may even try to create the ‘ community ’ which their preconceptions of rural life have led them to expect . |
| 12 | All the preparations , all the propaganda , had led them to expect Herr Hitler to start it with a bang , an airborne cataclysm , probably with fire and with deadly gas . |
| 13 | Everlast has made much in recent interviews of HOP 's lack of meaning — they 're just regular guys who enjoy a few bevvies and like to get laid , they do n't pretend otherwise , and no-one should come to them expecting anything else . |
| 14 | Now they expected information from him . |
| 15 | DELEGATES to the International Coffee Organisation meeting in London said they expected to begin drawing up a framework within which economic clauses could eventually be reintroduced into the agreement . |
| 16 | As a result of the increase , some banks and building societies said they expected to raise mortgage rates by between 1 and 1.5 per cent , probably from 1 November . |
| 17 | However , directors of the 60 per cent-owned member of Robert Maxwell 's stable of companies , said they expected to maintain a final year dividend of 3p ‘ in view of the satisfactory progress ’ of Pergamon 's £90m-plus disposal programme . |
| 18 | But more frequently it arose that , in the absence of a policewoman , the female field-worker was relied upon for comfort by female members of the public , engaging her in eye contact to find what they expected would be a special ‘ feminine ’ understanding and reassurance . |
| 19 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 20 | Her brother he had met before and the two men talked about the year 's haysaving and the price they expected for sheep and wool and cattle . |
| 21 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 22 | Several members of the prison staff said they expected to be victimised for helping to form the union . |
| 23 | The force 's immediate task is to ensure free elections in Nicaragua , and the Nicaraguan delegates said they expected to play ‘ a very positive role ’ . |
| 24 | Analysts said they expected the group to have no big problems persuading shareholders to approve the restructuring plans at an extraordinary general meeting on December 21 . |
| 25 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 26 | Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach . |
| 27 | From four hundred members they expected to rise to hundreds of thousands in the coming ‘ death agony of capitalism ’ . |
| 28 | A joint study by Keefe , Bruyette $ Woods , a stockbrokerage that specialises in bank shares , and Ernst $ Young , a firm of accountants , found that banks achieved an average 35% saving in costs when they joined forces ( admittedly less than they expected ) . |
| 29 | The other prisoners gasped because they expected him to be shot on the spot . |
| 30 | This book , therefore , is not only about how men and women in the nineteenth century faced the hour of death ; it is also about what they expected to encounter on the further shore . |