Example sentences of "expect them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tripoli postponed the elections until February ; Ajdabiyans confidently expected them on 1 February , and after that day the chairman of the local Assembly telephoned Tripoli each afternoon to ask if he should hold the poll . |
| 2 | She expected them to be ready , mounted , properly turned out and willing . |
| 3 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 4 | The danger is that they might turn out to be entirely different from how you expected them to be . |
| 5 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 6 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 7 | Hunter , Joyce , and Redruth were told what was happening , and were less surprised that we expected them to be . |
| 8 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 9 | I never expected them to , I 'll tell you the truth , but then again at that age you do n't think they ever will or it 'll ever happen to you do you ? |
| 10 | But EMAP said yesterday that by cutting overheads , it expected them to be profitable this year . |
| 11 | You know , they told me , and the they were on , and they were like they really expected them to just make up and they started having a fight ! |
| 12 | Tommy gave straight answers and expected them in return . |
| 13 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 14 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | We stand to derive immense benefits from such releases of genetically engineered organisms into the environment — providing they do what we expect them to . |
| 16 | Somehow we expect them to be happy to be kept in a place which is warm and dry , where they can eat to their heart 's content with their companions ; but no , they become quite upset . |
| 17 | And sometimes things do n't work out the way you expect them to . |
| 18 | A word of caution : we dare not simply burst in on others with a glibly phrased formula and expect them to be warm with forgiveness . |
| 19 | I mean , I write things in a certain way , so I expect them to be played in a certain way . |
| 20 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 21 | ‘ Both managements are doing all we expect them to . ’ |
| 22 | At least when a guest is misbehaving they 're where we expect them to be . |
| 23 | Finally , on the day that I 'd promised to ring the breeder back and let him know one way or the other , a miracle happened — one of those strokes of luck that seem to come along when you least expect them to . |
| 24 | CERN 's technical record is such that few expect them to be insurmountable , though the original specifications for the magnets — two-thirds as powerful again as the SSC 's — may not be met . |
| 25 | Analysts that have seen the things at beta test sites in the US expect them to be announced next year for delivery in 1994 — but analysts are almost always too optimistic in forecasting IBM announcement dates . |
| 26 | Allow 45cm ( 18in ) between plants , and expect them to be slow to establish . |
| 27 | I think the mother and child love is n't always pleasant and I think that 's quite worrying to some mother 's if they ca n't love their child in the way that people expect them to . |
| 28 | Men only find underwear sexy because porno magazines expect them to . |
| 29 | ‘ I have a part interest , about to become sole if negotiations continue as I expect them to , in a tiny Portuguese-language radio station in Macau . |
| 30 | For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time . |