Example sentences of "expect [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sha n't expect my wife to travel the world with me , so that 's where you 'll stay . |
| 2 | How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job ? |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | What can I expect my hotel room to be like ? |
| 5 | I mean , I do n't expect my Dad had to wait as long for his tea . |
| 6 | ‘ But you need not expect my goodwill if you choose to consort with the enemy . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | I do not expect my father to lend me money simply because he is a father . |
| 10 | " You could hardly expect my people , weak and hungry as they are , to carry them all the way from King Darzin 's garden . |
| 11 | " 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 . " |
| 12 | I did n't expect my family to visit me because it was too far , but they could have wrote . |
| 13 | How else could it seriously expect my custom ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The unpredictable nature of the fashion industry means Canan can expect her work to be anything but regular . |
| 16 | Now Trading Standards have told Mrs Clifford she ca n't expect her money back . |
| 17 | You could n't expect her novels to make money . |
| 18 | She does not expect her readers to accept her own conclusions verbatim , but urges them to make a similar creative attempt to listen for the deeper implications of the Christian message , to reach through the dogmas and intellectual propositions , which can never do justice to the ineffable mystery of the divine , and touch the heart of the faith . |
| 19 | ‘ She can expect her husband at her side , and that 's what she 's going to get . ’ |
| 20 | A woman who has been in an employer 's scheme for 17 years out of a total working life of 34 years will expect her employer to pay exactly half of her additional pension . |
| 21 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |
| 22 | Any society embarked on wholesale transition might expect its progress to be punctuated by intermittent chaos . |
| 23 | Again , we would expect its level of use to be inversely related to the level of union organisation in an establishment . |
| 24 | In between the publication of the White Paper and the passing of the new Act , the government decided that in view of the work required on the hospital services , it could not expect its community care proposals to be ready by the proposed launch date of April 1991 , so in early 1990 it announced a two-year delay in implementation until 1993 . |
| 25 | Many royalists had gone into exile in the colonies , especially Virginia , and the new government could not expect its orders to be obeyed on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 26 | Yes , I would think that if a person had a normal personality , if the interaction between the in institution and the personality was normal , you 'd expect their interaction with other people to be normal . |
| 27 | Since all mammals evolved from a common ancestral stock we would expect their brains and bodies to have large numbers of common features which could be the basis of a reasonable level of extrapolation ( Sarnat and Netsky 1981 ) . |
| 28 | Someone is sure to ask you how long it takes to knit a jumper , but do n't tell them the exact number of hours and minutes , or they will expect their jumper by tomorrow ! |
| 29 | There were considerable dangers in the project , but Warner and Wallis would expect their writers to mould the original story-lines into the Hollywood format and any obvious problems would be worked out with the representatives of the various censoring agents who normally read every script prior to production . |
| 30 | Barry and Diane do n't expect their jobs or their home back — but they 're hoping to be given a tribunal date for later this year . |