Example sentences of "expect [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expected my times at Marseille to be measured in years and months , not weeks and days . |
| 2 | She expected my clothes to be bloodstained ! ’ |
| 3 | I have been a machine knitter for about 20 years and I still remember those early garments which I expected my family to wear . |
| 4 | ‘ I expect my mum would like him , ’ Sandy said . |
| 5 | I expect my wife used it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Look , I expect my friends are happy enough here , so if you could just , you know , set me down somewhere — ’ |
| 7 | I expect my car to be |
| 8 | I expect my employees to keep their minds on the job ! |
| 9 | I expect my aunt meant well ; I guess it might just have been one of her spasmodic assumptions of authority in the family — out of character and dramatic as these assumptions usually were . |
| 10 | I expect my job 's gone now . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For the rest of the year , for 358 days , I expect my mind to achieve autonomy over my problems and I plod on while life with a capital L proceeds independently of me . |
| 13 | ‘ I expect my guests to be polite , señorita , ’ he informed her icily . |
| 14 | When they visit I expect my husband to be polite to them . |
| 15 | HEARD in a City tavern last night : ‘ I expect my husband to be just the same in 20 years time as he is now . ’ |
| 16 | Oliver said when I told him this story rather hesitatingly , though I expect my nerves were to do with talking about Gillian . |
| 17 | I expect her mum called it her , when she was a little baby . |
| 18 | As I had expected their conversation was an example of golfing humour at its best . |
| 19 | Nor would they have expected their community 's problem to become the focus of one of the most intensive and long-lasting media campaigns the borough has experienced . |
| 20 | There can not have been any English fans who had expected their team to win the series , but the manner in which they were just being steam-rollered seemly scarcely credible . |
| 21 | Kate had been half aware that the TV cameras were around , but she 'd hardly expected their wedding to be tacked on to the end of the nine o'clock news . |
| 22 | Soviet leaders have given no indication , moreover , that they are prepared to abandon the PDPA and apparently expect its apparatus to be retained in post-settlement Afghanistan even if its role is reduced and its monopoly of power relinquished . |
| 23 | The poet 's wife tried to avoid going , by saying that it was late for the child and that she would have expected her husband not to be curious . |
| 24 | He had expected her denial but she clung to him saying , ‘ But not enough , Harry . |
| 25 | She had n't expected her stomach to churn , her throat to close up , at the sound of ripping fabric and flesh . |
| 26 | Only a very few of the many references in the bibliography are earlier than 1979 yet undergraduates are already arriving at university with first-hand experience of videotext and expect their lecturers to know more ! |
| 27 | Retailers , wholesalers and motor traders all expect their businesses to become worse over the next three months . |
| 28 | Retailers , wholesalers and motor traders all expect their businesses to become worse over the next three months . |
| 29 | Koreans expect their statesmen to behave with calmness , even when questioned closely . |
| 30 | Mars expect their customers to chomp their way through more than a billion bars this year , worth about £90m . |