Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] expect [pers pn] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the drive back he considered whether the man were guilty of something more heinous than drinking champagne with a rich young woman on an afternoon when his constituents might reasonably expect him to be in the House of Commons . |
| 2 | And of course , if you look at it er , logically , I mean , for a a woman to be tied up and kept in a room , you know , and kept prisoner all her life you could hardly expect her to be sane even if she did |
| 3 | You could hardly expect him to be ready to defend it , or give his life for it . |
| 4 | ‘ One would naturally expect him to be well fed . ’ |
| 5 | Although the machine intelligences we create will be based on our own form of intelligence and an extension of it , we can nevertheless expect them to be alien in many ways . |
| 6 | ‘ You can hardly expect her to be . ’ |