Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect [pron] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If the cheapest supplies are from gas , they will purchase gas ; if it is coal , I would expect them to use coal-fired methods . |
2 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
3 | ‘ I would expect you to say that . |
4 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
5 | You 'd expect them to have opposite signs . |
6 | And the inevitable qu you 'd expect me to ask this to you . |
7 | You 'd expect yeah y you 'd expect somebody to do that for you of course . |
8 | He 'd have to judge the force of the blow very carefully and you 'd expect it to leave more than a slight bump . ’ |
9 | Clearly there is considerable travel within the UK but we would expect you to spend one or two days a week in our offices so you would need to live within a 100 mile radius of Bracknell . |
10 | ’ In return for that amount , ’ y'Pripio went on , ’ we would expect you to maintain total discretion and loyalty for the duration if the contract . |