Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] expect [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I am expected to maintain the image of an angling guru , and all too frequently this uncomfortable mask slips ; generally leaving me red-faced with embarrassment , furiously attempting to devise some semi-acceptable excuse for rampant stupidity or lack of skill . |
| 2 | I 'm expected to foot the bill . |
| 3 | ‘ You see , Roger , ’ he commented , ‘ you were expected to take the road to Dover whilst I was bound for Scotland . |
| 4 | Every week she was expected to clean the house right through and make the dinners , while the grandmother had her outing to Edinburgh : ‘ she had jist t'come in and sit doon like a lady . ’ |
| 5 | Similarly we are expected to understand the distinction between Atlantis qua actually existing and the idea of Atlantis as conceived by this , that or other person , writer , scholar . |
| 6 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 7 | ‘ If you ask the players to perform to the extent that they are expected to entertain the public , they you must pay them as entertainers ’ , was the way former Ireland coach Jimmy Davidson summed up the situation . |
| 8 | It is a particularly difficult time for many as , on the one hand , they are being urged to make decisions about their future while , on the other , they are expected to toe the line both at home and at school . |
| 9 | Thus , among South American hunters and gatherers , women are actively excluded from hunting large animals , an occasional but highly valued activity , but , on the other hand , they are expected to supply the basis of daily sustenance through gathering of vegetable products , an activity which men affect to despise , but which is far more time consuming , and infinitely more important for subsistence . |
| 10 | It would be inconceivable for pop musicians or film stars to be charged with bringing their profession into disrepute , but footballers are different , they are expected to bear the burden of representing values that few individuals can live up to . |
| 11 | Rugby World Cup committee men plan to visit South Africa again in January , when they are expected to offer the Springboks an early chance to sign the host-nation agreement . |
| 12 | Today they were expected to visit the Play Resource Warehouse and Pilot 's Row Centre , before departing for Belfast . |
| 13 | The two people who found it are expected to receive the value of the brooch but it 's a very well preserved skull , I suppose it was all in mud an |
| 14 | How can he be expected to run the country when half his time is spent waiting for people who never turn up ? |
| 15 | But before it can become law , the bill needs to be approved by the Senate , where it is expected to become the target of pro-hunting amendments . |
| 16 | It is expected to reduce the state 's total emissions of air pollutants by about 5 per cent , or 1,435 tonnes per day . |
| 17 | It is expected to contact the St Petersburg Institute for Research and Development of Biotechnical Systems , the whale 's owners , to offer a home to Brightness which , in commercial terms , is worth about £100,000 , excluding a premium for his fame . |
| 18 | He is expected to study the referee 's and umpire 's comments at Lords today |
| 19 | He is expected to announce the construction of an airport costing £640m , a project that will be hailed as evidence of Britain 's confidence in Hong Kong 's post-1997 future . |
| 20 | He is expected to reveal the truth of whether Julius and Ethel Rosenberg , executed in 1953 for wartime espionage , had in fact helped obtain plans for the American atom bomb for the Soviets . |
| 21 | In addition it was expected to increase the supply of emergency food aid passing across the Ethiopian border into Sudan , to regions facing a severe threat of mass starvation , and to refugees camps around the Sudanese capital , Khartoum , where refugee numbers were swollen by the influx from drought-ridden and war-torn rural areas . |
| 22 | It was expected to reduce the state 's total emissions of air pollutants by about 5 per cent , or 1,435 tonnes per day . |
| 23 | It always made him sick when he was expected to watch the turkey-killings . |
| 24 | Now it surprised him that he was expected to declare the pattern and intention behind it all in order that others could understand . |
| 25 | He was expected to get the crosses in from the left and get back to cover the left of defence . |
| 26 | At one stage he was expected to make the breakthrough to mainstream popularity . |