Example sentences of "expect them to " in BNC.
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| 31 | We 've heard a lot about the accuracy of the continuing bombardments , but erm anybody who 's been in a war will tell you that erm once you 're in a war situation , things do n't always go the way you expect them to , in fact there has to be an element of luck and erm the accuracy of bombing in particular erm sometimes leaves something to be required . |
| 32 | Neither she nor Nick were particularly tidy ; at home , in their warm , muddly house , no one had expected them to be . |
| 33 | I have found them working in ways I had never expected them to be able to . |
| 34 | Recent research has shown that well-informed mothers who have been able to take responsibility for decisions in pregnancy and labour feel happier after the event , even when their plans did n't work out as they had expected them to . |
| 35 | He would n't have expected them to . |
| 36 | If you 'd put those clothes there would you have expected them to be found sooner or later ? ’ |
| 37 | I 'd expected them to be quiet and reserved in their style as they are seemingly in their culture . |
| 38 | She wanted to giggle ; she had expected them to be told to hold hands and summon up the spirits of the dead . |
| 39 | She had expected them to be hard and hurtful , cruelly punishing . |
| 40 | I 'm used to similar excerpts in The Telegraph and in the local press , but do n't expect them to be so boring . |
| 41 | Nor did he expect them to be republished . |
| 42 | It 's the job of the reporter to interpret facts and schools can not expect them to be mere mouthpieces . |
| 43 | Should we expect them to be ‘ selfish ’ or ‘ ruthless ’ , if they have no alleles ? |
| 44 | You ca n't expect them to be anything yet , straight from — well — ’ Better not underline their intended destination before being deflected by Uncle Knacker . |
| 45 | We would expect them to corner discrete specialist areas of care and charge monopoly rent for the cases they treat . |
| 46 | Although the machine intelligences we create will be based on our own form of intelligence and an extension of it , we can nevertheless expect them to be alien in many ways . |
| 47 | ‘ They have n't been involved for quite a while so you could n't really expect them to be picked , ’ said Thorstvedt , who is likely to be Norway 's last line of defence on October 14 . |
| 48 | Most shops are prepared for your to do this with expensive boots , but do n't expect them to be exchanged if they 've been marked in any way or worn outside ! |
| 49 | Butterflies and moths are among the most beautiful insects and one does not expect them to be venomous or poisonous . |
| 50 | You can not expect them to be house-trained and , indeed , this can subsequently prove a far more arduous task than normal . |
| 51 | If the military regimes of the Interregnum were prepared within reason to allow lay men and women to be godly in whichever way seemed most appropriate to them , they did expect them to be godly in some way . |
| 52 | Only in the case of money , over which men may retain control even when the domestic division of labour is less rigid , might one expect them to be more actively involved in exchanges of support with kin . |
| 53 | So the lesson is that if you use masking tape , or any other pressure sensitive tape , to hinge your works of art on paper , you should expect them to be showing yellow stains form the adhesive in four to five years time . |
| 54 | Our own children are now so far removed from danger , at least of the primal kind , and these Masai are so close to it , that you would expect them to be cowed and fearful . |
| 55 | I would not expect them to pair and breed until they are at least four inches long , so you will have to be patient . |
| 56 | ‘ I said : no , when you get someone running very fast and you 're using th a second , you ca n't expect them to be . |
| 57 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 58 | On the other hand we have noticed that the Greeks were much less curious than we would expect them to be about certain countries within their reach and indeed well inside their sphere of economic and cultural influence . |
| 59 | But if light is composed of particles , one might expect them to be affected by gravity in the same way that cannonballs , rockets , and planets are . |
| 60 | He could not expect them to be warmed by the idea of daffodils coming up outside . |