Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect his notes went into the university archives , and the rest of his belongings would have been sold off . |
| 2 | I expect my employees to keep their minds on the job ! |
| 3 | How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job ? |
| 4 | Note your own interpretation of the sequence , then make a note of the interpretations you expect your students to make . |
| 5 | I can argue that Greenfield does not make this explicit because she is taking for granted conventions that she herself has learnt in the western education system and which she expects her readers to share . |
| 6 | Most of the time we communicate verbally to each other , and we expect our horses to do the same . |
| 7 | Today we expect our stars to have social consciences and wide-ranging opinions . |
| 8 | I mean starting from the way children go to school in the morning — they expect their parents to take them quite often , and to contribute to pollution . |
| 9 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
| 10 | Samuel Oldknow was generally regarded as a humane employer , but even he expected his apprentices to work for thirteen hours . |
| 11 | He has not told the House how much he expects his proposals to cost , both in the pilot phase , when adult credits will be paid to a quarter of a million people , and later when he hopes to extend the scheme across the country . |
| 12 | I do not think that any one of us expects our children to walk out of the place ‘ normal ’ , but we do know that it is the best place in the world for them to achieve their fullest potential . |