Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [modal v] expect [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Dennis Oliver , the man leading the MCC rebels in their bid to get the vote of no confidence at next month 's meeting of all 17,500 MCC members was equally defiant , saying : ‘ We are going ahead full steam with our campaign , and if we win the vote I would expect Dexter and the selectors to resign . ’ |
| 2 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 3 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 4 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 5 | In that sense , The Memory Palace is exactly the kind of show you 'd expect Art Futura to produce . |
| 6 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 7 | The letter adds : ‘ In four years ’ time we would expect Middlesbrough to have achieved noticeable progress on the path to sustainable development . |