Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
| 2 | I expect many mothers have had the experience of standing at the sink washing and re-washing dishes because a teenage son or daughter is standing in the kitchen talking about something important , and once the dish-washing is over , he or she will go away . |
| 3 | Er , and I expect that margin to continue rising and be much higher again next year , so the medicine is working there . |
| 4 | I expect that lot belonged to her late husband . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
| 6 | I expect some people watching might think that wo wo football is a boy 's game , rather than a girl 's game , but of course that is n't the tradition is it ? |
| 7 | You expect most candidates to make you offers and promises — that would be the old way . |
| 8 | We expect all parents to support our aims fully and to uphold our Catholic ethos . |
| 9 | How do you know whether anything has been a success , or whether you 're doing anything right , unless you ask , and we expect this rationale to follow through into our community investment programme . |
| 10 | In the case of major company resources it is fair to say that the very large companies invest millions in their computer systems and they expect these systems to have a life span of at least a decade . |