Example sentences of "expect [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect my mum would like him , ’ Sandy said . |
| 2 | I expect my wife used it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Look , I expect my friends are happy enough here , so if you could just , you know , set me down somewhere — ’ |
| 4 | I expect my car to be |
| 5 | I expect my employees to keep their minds on the job ! |
| 6 | I expect my aunt meant well ; I guess it might just have been one of her spasmodic assumptions of authority in the family — out of character and dramatic as these assumptions usually were . |
| 7 | I expect my job 's gone now . |
| 8 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
| 9 | For the rest of the year , for 358 days , I expect my mind to achieve autonomy over my problems and I plod on while life with a capital L proceeds independently of me . |
| 10 | ‘ I expect my guests to be polite , señorita , ’ he informed her icily . |
| 11 | When they visit I expect my husband to be polite to them . |
| 12 | HEARD in a City tavern last night : ‘ I expect my husband to be just the same in 20 years time as he is now . ’ |
| 13 | Oliver said when I told him this story rather hesitatingly , though I expect my nerves were to do with talking about Gillian . |
| 14 | I expect her mum called it her , when she was a little baby . |
| 15 | Soviet leaders have given no indication , moreover , that they are prepared to abandon the PDPA and apparently expect its apparatus to be retained in post-settlement Afghanistan even if its role is reduced and its monopoly of power relinquished . |
| 16 | Only a very few of the many references in the bibliography are earlier than 1979 yet undergraduates are already arriving at university with first-hand experience of videotext and expect their lecturers to know more ! |
| 17 | Retailers , wholesalers and motor traders all expect their businesses to become worse over the next three months . |
| 18 | Retailers , wholesalers and motor traders all expect their businesses to become worse over the next three months . |
| 19 | Koreans expect their statesmen to behave with calmness , even when questioned closely . |
| 20 | Mars expect their customers to chomp their way through more than a billion bars this year , worth about £90m . |
| 21 | Suppose that the macroeconomic model we are estimating states that consumption expenditure in period t depends upon what people in period t — 1 expect their income will be in period t , that is : where C t is desired consumption expenditure , is expected income , t is a random error with zero mean and constant variance , α is a constant , and α : 1 is the marginal propensity to consume ( MPC ) out of expected income . |
| 22 | I mean starting from the way children go to school in the morning — they expect their parents to take them quite often , and to contribute to pollution . |
| 23 | And there 's been quite a bit of success in in that area both of the newspaper companies er , are doing better than last year and er Longmans for instance expect er expect their operating cash flow erm their working capital rather to be lower this year than last year by by year end . |
| 24 | Parents vary in the quantity they expect their child to be able to eat so a food diary can help the therapist determine appropriate quantities with the parents . |
| 25 | Countries like Brazil , Mexico or Tanzania ca n't simply write checks in cruzados , pesos or shillings and expect their creditors to be happy . |
| 26 | Many retired people expect to slow down , expect their health to deteriorate ; in fact , their expectations are so low they do little to make their lives full and interesting . |
| 27 | I 'm told they behave here as if they expect their empire to last forever . |
| 28 | For instance , in the UK the Confederation of British Industry publishes a four monthly basis a national survey of the opinions of a lab sample of companies whether they expect their sales , exports , production , employment and investment to remain stable or change . |
| 29 | Most parents expect their children to be clean by the age of 2½ years , but 16 per cent of 3-year-olds still show signs of faecal incontinence once a week or more . |
| 30 | Most families in a village like this expect their children to work on the farm when they get older , but in this case it was different . |