Example sentences of "expect my [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 sha n't expect my wife to travel the world with me , so that 's where you 'll stay . |
| 18 | How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job ? |
| 19 | She heard her father say , " Then , by the Holy Sacrament it is his promise he has broken , and can not expect my daughter to keep hers . " |
| 20 | What can I expect my hotel room to be like ? |
| 21 | I mean , I do n't expect my Dad had to wait as long for his tea . |
| 22 | ‘ But you need not expect my goodwill if you choose to consort with the enemy . ’ |
| 23 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 24 | I think that 's the trouble with Christmas , I said to Rob , in a way , I said I hope when I get to mum and dad 's age I wo n't expect my children to think oh god you got to go there for you know I said that I 'd love to just once take the kids away and go somewhere |
| 25 | I do not expect my father to lend me money simply because he is a father . |
| 26 | " You could hardly expect my people , weak and hungry as they are , to carry them all the way from King Darzin 's garden . |
| 27 | " I hate to cut you short , " said Richard from the hatch , " it 's only that I can hardly expect my staff to be in time if I 'm late myself . " |
| 28 | I did n't expect my family to visit me because it was too far , but they could have wrote . |
| 29 | How else could it seriously expect my custom ? |
| 30 | For instance , I admit freely that I would expect my desktop publisher to be able to flow and reflow copy from one column to another automatically ; that seems a basic requirement for general-purpose DTP and PagePlus ca n't do it . |