Example sentences of "i expect [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From an early age I expected them to do things for themselves , and sometimes for me , and when they snivelled about their friends having kind and conscientious mothers who changed their sheets and made fruit pies , I said ‘ Some day , when you 're at Sunderland Polytechnic and living by your wits , you 'll thank me . ’ |
| 2 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I expected them to start flexing their muscles in a wrecking , ransacking assault on the ship . |
| 5 | I expected them to learn how to read . |
| 6 | I expected him to rise . |
| 7 | I saw the lie and line , and knowing what he 'd done already , I expected him to chip in . |
| 8 | It is the last thing I expected him to do . |
| 9 | ‘ I expected him over an hour ago . ’ |
| 10 | I suppose I expected him to pounce or something . |
| 11 | I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head . |
| 12 | But although he was terse , he did n't rage at me the way I expected him to . |
| 13 | I expected him to be with me , his stentorian ubiety transmogrifying the spacious library into somewhere shabby and small . |
| 14 | I expected him to continue , but he knelt and pushed the rusty metal through the brightly coloured rope that bound the fortune-teller 's waist . |
| 15 | I 've been lucky : Scathach has returned only four years older than I expected him to be . ’ |
| 16 | the tube station cos I expected him to spring out |
| 17 | I expected her to limp slightly . |
| 18 | She did n't flinch as I expected her to . |
| 19 | I expected her to interrupt . |
| 20 | So she knew where we lived , and I expected her to turn up and claim you . ’ |
| 21 | Probably too weak ; and , even if she was n't , I expected she would just let me crack my skull on the pavement because women like to see men helpless . |
| 22 | ‘ When I moved in with Peter , I expected us to marry . |
| 23 | I started siding stuff then , an' sweeping an' doing ; and I expected he 'd begin a calling me for my idle ways . |
| 24 | I went over budget but then I expected I would . |
| 25 | Yeah , its within your budget and you 've done well , I went over budget , but then I expected I would , because for one thing I was buying for more . |
| 26 | I expected you to pay me for such attentions , my dear . |
| 27 | I expected you back sooner . ’ |
| 28 | " I want to please you and you 're not a bit as I expected you to be . " |
| 29 | " I expected you would . |
| 30 | You do n't think I expected you to have two hundred pounds on you , do you ? |