Example sentences of "expect [noun pl] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not being in loco parentis he can get on with his own job , and expect parents to do theirs . |
| 2 | Young children often show a great interest and delight in their faeces and expect others to do the same . |
| 3 | If cloze is a sensitive measure of this aspect of comprehension , we would expect readers to do very poorly if they were presented with a cloze test on a passage in which all the sentences had been mixed up . |
| 4 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 5 | No , they 're too idle , expecting others to do as they demand ; it 's just not possible . |
| 6 | ‘ Society expects children to do something most adults would find terrifying — give details of the most intimate obscenities performed on them in front of court officials , the public and the media and often their abusers . |
| 7 | Besides , it could be very profitable : PR firms set an inflated value on their own services , and they expected others to do the same . |
| 8 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |