Example sentences of "[pron] expect [pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " 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 " . |
| 2 | I expect they made love with the lights out . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect you mean will O'Farrell be back , ’ Mrs Carson said . |
| 4 | ‘ I expect he prefers cheese and onion to beef , ’ confirms long-time total stranger Kevin Costner , ‘ Most vegetarians do . ’ ’ |
| 5 | said : ‘ We are audited on a regular basis by the major pharmaceutical companies who expect us to match FDA standards . |
| 6 | " How can you expect me to teach art ? " |
| 7 | Do you expect me to send food and wine to the men whose forefathers took mine to wretched imprisonment in Genoa ? |
| 8 | He was looking at Pike as if he expected him to change shape , to flower into some awful creature . |
| 9 | He expected it to become toll free after 15 to 20 years . |