Example sentences of "expect [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you 'd hardly expect Jim Lancaster to ring me up and confess , would you ? ’ |
| 2 | Well how do you expect Bernard results if you do n't tell him which results are decent ? |
| 3 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
| 4 | ‘ But you ca n't expect Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) to help us if we show we do n't trust him ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Do you expect Waterloo tomorrow ? ’ |
| 6 | While chairman and chief executive , Peter Bonfield , said he is still ‘ not seeing the wide green shoots ’ of recovery , he does expect ICL to stay in the black during the coming year . |
| 7 | The council does n't expect Swindon to be ready for an assault on Britain in Bloom for some time , but it 's convinced all the effort 's worth it . |
| 8 | I , I , well I am afraid that the people who have been audited are exactly the people , I mean you would expect Ian and Tanya certainly to be good , you 'd expect Philip to be good would n't you and Susannah , and Lyn , perhaps less so . |
| 9 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 10 | The letter adds : ‘ In four years ’ time we would expect Middlesbrough to have achieved noticeable progress on the path to sustainable development . |
| 11 | I do n't expect Scott and Emma will come in your car but I would just go with you if that 's okay . |
| 12 | ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’ |
| 13 | It was not what one would expect Aunt Margaret to have chosen for herself . |
| 14 | In sum , we would expect Scotland 's share to amount to some 10.66 per cent , the same percentage of UK Government expenditure as currently received by the Scottish Office . |
| 15 | Do n't expect Alan checked on you yesterday . |
| 16 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 17 | I did n't expect Pete home any special time . ’ |
| 18 | We would expect Linotype to develop the product along the lines of their traditional high quality typography business and there is no guarantee that the product will remain compatible with its original version . |
| 19 | Can anyone expect Mr. Kiechle to stand up and explain everything that he is looking for ? |
| 20 | Given his belief that the idea that objects exist independently of a perceiving mind contains ‘ a manifest contradiction ’ , one might expect Berkeley to provide some explanation of why anyone should mistakenly have it . |
| 21 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 22 | The Right will clearly expect Mr Hamilton to keep in check some of Mr Heseltine 's more interventionist policies . |
| 23 | I did n't expect Mr Meredith Williams to stay , ’ he said curtly . |
| 24 | Wh-when do you expect Mr Marshall back ? ’ |
| 25 | Do you expect Madame Fleur to make twelve dresses in as many hours ? |
| 26 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 27 | He has a lifetime 's belongings here and we could hardly expect Carrie to move into Fern Cottage . ’ |
| 28 | Every day we change a little , but you would n't expect Matthew not to know us , would you , eh ? ’ |
| 29 | Now , I do n't expect Matthew to support that for one moment , but what I 'm saying to committee is that is our pragmatic solution at this moment . |
| 30 | And do you expect Israel to attack , and if they do attack , or retaliate , then will this change the whole complexion of the conflict ? |