Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought all the world smelt of onions ; I should expect a writer to choose a less ubiquitous smell to show observation . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose I should expect a remark like that from you , but nevertheless — ’ |
| 3 | Tucking a clean pale blue T-shirt into his shorts , he did n't even glance in her direction , but called over his shoulder as he hoisted himself up the ladder , ‘ I 'll expect a mug of tea in five minutes . ’ |
| 4 | Well , in the morning , when you 've got over your fit of pique , about I do n't know what , I 'll expect an apology from you . |
| 5 | I made my way to a cottage near the church , where I had been told I could expect a night 's lodging . |
| 6 | You ought to expect an agency to behave recognizably like a business : if it does not , it is reasonable to expect that it will be unbusinesslike in other respects . |
| 7 | I mean , as the company had its origins in Jordan , you might expect a preponderance of Jordanians on the board . |
| 8 | Yesterday , hospital on-call administrator Alan Kennedy said Mrs McIntyre 's complaint would be thoroughly investigated and she could expect a reply within ten working days . |
| 9 | They were as relaxed as you 'd expect a couple of dogs to be in the midday sun in the West Indies and clearly had life exactly as they wanted it . |
| 10 | " If a flat 's been unoccupied for some time , you 'd expect a pile of letters inside the door . " |
| 11 | It means a bit of cheating , will give you some idea of how they , at level one , on a picture a child , you 'd expect a child to pick out two things about buildings . |
| 12 | You 'd expect a wages clerk to be able to handle it would n't you ? |
| 13 | At night George did what you 'd expect a husband to but I did n't mind . |
| 14 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 15 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 16 | You can expect a choice of nine restaurants and bars , a casino and nightclub , a swimming pool , whirlpool and gymnasium , a full business centre , of course , and simultaneous translation facilities in our Congress Hall . |
| 17 | I think you can expect a reward for what you did , son , ’ he smiled . |
| 18 | WITH your ruler Mars in this area of your chart until April 27 you can expect a lot of activity on the home front . |
| 19 | In fact , you can expect a lot of good news from KLM as we continue to meet your expectations . |
| 20 | With him you can expect a lot of gratuitous sex and violence , a trail of corpses and a thrilling roof-top — ’ |
| 21 | Diamond has a density of about 3.5 grams per c.c. , polyethylene about 0.92 ; when we have made all the necessary corrections however we find that we ought to expect an E of about 10 x 10 6 p.s.i . |
| 22 | If this approach is anywhere near correct , we should expect a correlation between the class of people who are prohibited as sexual partners and the likelihood that they will be familiar or extremely novel ( see Fig. 24.6 ) . |
| 23 | We should expect a student to tackle a problematic discourse in the same way as we would ourselves : that is to say top-down , starting with general ideas of the discourse and filling in details — like difficult word meaning — later . |
| 24 | ‘ The Commission does not think that we should expect an increase of prices … |
| 25 | Energy is thus dispersed and so we might expect an increase in entropy and not a decrease . |
| 26 | ‘ It raises the question of internal control and we would expect a bank facing this difficulty to inform us right away , ’ said an official . |
| 27 | When we would expect a feeling to be expressed to some extent by both partners but instead one person is quite overcome with emotion while the other is apparently untouched , we may assume that one carries and expresses the feeling for both . |
| 28 | We would expect an anchoring of the path at one end or the other to reduce at least a portion of the breadth-first search . |
| 29 | All organisations exist within some wider context and we would expect an organisation 's culture to reflect this . |
| 30 | In contrast , we would expect an example like ( 6 ) to produce a relatively high rate of plural continuations , since it is likely that the two meet in order to carry out joint activities . |