Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought all the world smelt of onions ; I should expect a writer to choose a less ubiquitous smell to show observation . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose I should expect a remark like that from you , but nevertheless — ’ |
| 3 | Tucking a clean pale blue T-shirt into his shorts , he did n't even glance in her direction , but called over his shoulder as he hoisted himself up the ladder , ‘ I 'll expect a mug of tea in five minutes . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll be absolutely open with you — we do have difficulties over cash , but when you see the business we 've got lined up … well , this time next year I 'll expect the bank to be standing me a slap-up lunch ! |
| 5 | Well , in the morning , when you 've got over your fit of pique , about I do n't know what , I 'll expect an apology from you . |
| 6 | I made my way to a cottage near the church , where I had been told I could expect a night 's lodging . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd expect the Marketing Director of a firm this size to claim twice as much for overnight stays . ’ |
| 8 | You know , this is what I would expect every group in the parish to do , to tackle areas where |
| 9 | In all the seminar based work mentioned above , I would expect the students to play a rather more organising role than previously . |
| 10 | From my experience of other , similar cases I would expect the cost of investigating your claim , including the cost of a full medical report and VAT , to be approximately £X . |
| 11 | Could I also say one thing finally , and that is the fact that we 've tried to run together the alteration and the greenbelt local plan as concurrently er as possible , er it would appear that the timing erm is coming together reasonably satisfactorily erm in that we hope that the report from the greenbelt local plan enquiry , is not to er far distant , erm and we would expect , sir , that you will be reporting on the proceedings at this examination in public er in the not to distant future , well I think I did give an undertaking at the greenbelt local plan enquiry that the County Council , because the two are er interrelated to a degree , that I would expect the County Council would not wish to pursue either report er until er the other er is available , and that seems to the County Council to be entirely sensible , that the two reports , the structure plan alteration and the greenbelt local plan enquiry , erm should be looked at together . |
| 12 | And the pr we 're er , I would expect the profits of Thames to be in line with that that we expected when we acquired the business . |
| 13 | I would expect the causes to be physical and psychological ; overwork , the ennui of middle age , or a need to find some meaning to existence . |
| 14 | I will not seek to justify this , any more than I would expect the Tories to justify the three day week , the Suez Crisis or any other element of their sordid history , for what we are discussing is a situation facing thousands of people in this district today , and what we are gon na do to ensure that they have a future . |
| 15 | I do n't think ye should expect the teacher to do everything . |
| 16 | As paragraph 16.1 of Code C makes clear , the police officer is obliged to charge a suspect as soon as he believes that there is sufficient evidence for a prosecution to succeed , but nobody could expect the police simply to cease work on the case and rely at the trial only on the material revealed up to the moment of charging . |
| 17 | Ninety per cent of his party 's cash comes from the unions , which will expect a return . |
| 18 | You ought to expect an agency to behave recognizably like a business : if it does not , it is reasonable to expect that it will be unbusinesslike in other respects . |
| 19 | ‘ In the public service you must expect the clock to go somewhat slower than in any other organisation . |
| 20 | I mean , as the company had its origins in Jordan , you might expect a preponderance of Jordanians on the board . |
| 21 | They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption . |
| 22 | You might expect the creator of such grisly images to be a bit of a ghoul himself but Hutson is a small , chirpy bloke who lives with wife Belinda in a new , mock-Tudor Bovis home in Milton Keynes , listens to heavy metal music and supports Liverpool . |
| 23 | Now , what we 'll do is do exactly the same but this time for a negatively correlated score , and you might expect the Z scores to be paired up like so . |
| 24 | You might expect the governments of democratic countries to be horrified by this prospect ; but no . |
| 25 | She said nothing , but the cold sadistic look in the eyes of the SS women told her that she could expect no mercy . |
| 26 | Yesterday , hospital on-call administrator Alan Kennedy said Mrs McIntyre 's complaint would be thoroughly investigated and she could expect a reply within ten working days . |
| 27 | They were as relaxed as you 'd expect a couple of dogs to be in the midday sun in the West Indies and clearly had life exactly as they wanted it . |
| 28 | " If a flat 's been unoccupied for some time , you 'd expect a pile of letters inside the door . " |
| 29 | It means a bit of cheating , will give you some idea of how they , at level one , on a picture a child , you 'd expect a child to pick out two things about buildings . |
| 30 | You 'd expect a wages clerk to be able to handle it would n't you ? |