Example sentences of "that [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not mean by this that I expect managers to cry , or to clasp one another like footballers after a goal has been won . |
| 2 | I intended to resign at the A.G.M. due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area before the next A.G.M. but since no-one else wanted the job I agreed to remain chairman for as long as I could . |
| 3 | Due to the publication schedule of ‘ Contact ’ I am actually writing this before the AGM , so I ca n't say anything more about it except that I intend to resign at it , due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area , so this will be the last time you will hear about London Branch from me . |
| 4 | Suppose that I expect a colleague to give me a lift home this evening , but that her car has a flat battery ; this wo n't stop us , however , because a friend 's car is parked conveniently near with some jump leads which we can use to get her car to start . |
| 5 | I am not so green that I expect to get the sole credit on this movie . |
| 6 | Not that I expect you to heed my warning . |
| 7 | Not that I expect someone like you to ’ |
| 8 | I will say , however , that I expect all the countries that we assist to make further progress towards democracy and increased accountability : we consider that vital . |
| 9 | I look forward to hearing from the hon. Gentleman how he will deal with the complaints that I expect he will receive from his constituents , when he has to explain to those employed at Guy 's hospital why the Labour party 's policies would deny that hospital the opportunity to increase staff pay by £6 a week . |
| 10 | Not that I expect you to be so baby-besotted as the people round here — with good cause , of course , as Ewan has to be a paragon ! |
| 11 | Oh it 's co cos you 've been doing that I expect . |
| 12 | Some advisers suggest that you look to past precedents within the company ; others recommend that you gear your expectations to the financial sum that you expect to require in order to exist in reasonable comfort until another job comes along ; others simply suggest that you look for payment of a year 's full salary . |
| 13 | I 'm really surprised that you expect something logical from an outfit that released their second album well in the wake of their third . |
| 14 | The counsellor said , ‘ You are describing Sarah in a very loving and respectful way — but you sound angry when you say that you expect me to pull you up for not describing her as a lover , too . |
| 15 | By reinforcing your credit policy a reputable debt collector can not only recover your monies but can also let your customers know that you run an efficient business and that you expect them to do the same by paying you as and when agreed . |
| 16 | I 've the feeling that you expect me to say something to you ? |
| 17 | The most practical way of examining the list is to tick off the items in each column that you expect definitely to apply and , where possible , to write down the expenditure involved in the adjacent box ( see Budget Planner , pages 120–25 ) . |
| 18 | If you insert three blank rows at the top of the spreadsheet you can use B2 to record the average inflation per year that you expect for the life of the savings plan . |
| 19 | ‘ Labour will introduce a new Railway Act that will lay down in law the broad policy objectives that we expect BR to meet , ’ he told the Centre for Local Economic Strategies in Sheffield . |
| 20 | When we make it obvious that we expect the worst from people , the worst is usually what we get . |
| 21 | This is obviously a gross distortion of the 50 per cent ratio that we expect . |
| 22 | Not everyone reacts to the death of someone close by bursting into tears and behaving in the kind of way that we expect from people experiencing grief . |
| 23 | ‘ Let us just say that we expect this to be your only half-witted jape for the entire term . |
| 24 | The social position that a person occupies we call a status and the behaviour that we expect from a person occupying that position we call a role . |
| 25 | Furthermore , we would expect any doctor , not just our own , to behave in the ‘ proper ’ manner , in the same way that we expect the same sort of behaviour from all shop assistants , or all priests , or all fathers . |
| 26 | It is interesting that although idioms consist of more than one word , they display to some extent the sort of internal cohesion that we expect of single words . |
| 27 | ‘ Not that we expect to be Martini . |
| 28 | We should also remember that we expect many of the elderly to function under circumstances of stress which would strain people of any age : bereavement , repeated as contemporaries gradually die , worry about money , fear of increasing infirmity , isolation and death . |
| 29 | ‘ However , nothing that we expect ever happens . ’ |
| 30 | Another element that we expect to be present in the ultimate theory is Richard Feynman 's proposal that quantum theory can be formulated as a ‘ sum over histories . ’ |