Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [pron] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 2 | From an early age I expected them to do things for themselves , and sometimes for me , and when they snivelled about their friends having kind and conscientious mothers who changed their sheets and made fruit pies , I said ‘ Some day , when you 're at Sunderland Polytechnic and living by your wits , you 'll thank me . ’ |
| 3 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 4 | I 'd not expected to convince the police at the top of the falls that I was a very sane person , nor did I expect them to believe Paul 's emergency story that we were a group of passing Hippies taking our kayaks for a walk . |
| 5 | Whatever Laura 's motives — Moira believes she expected her to take injections or pills to dry up her milk supply entirely ; Bernard believes she was opposed to mothers returning to work so soon — the atmosphere was charged . |
| 6 | Again Agnes 's face screwed up as she said , ‘ And you expect them to take Jessie ? ’ |
| 7 | No , because you expect somebody to take pride in what they do , means the job does n't get as well then . |
| 8 | Do you expect them to kill Liam , as they threaten , if they do n't get what they ask for ? ’ |
| 9 | " How can you expect me to teach art ? " |
| 10 | Do you expect me to send food and wine to the men whose forefathers took mine to wretched imprisonment in Genoa ? |
| 11 | In all dealings with people , we expect you to treat others promptly , courteously and with respect . |
| 12 | ‘ the social workers wo n't allocate the case because they 're short staffed — and they expect me to get Winnie moved . ’ |
| 13 | He was looking at Pike as if he expected him to change shape , to flower into some awful creature . |
| 14 | He expected me to ask questions but I carefully refrained from showing interest . |
| 15 | He expected it to become toll free after 15 to 20 years . |
| 16 | He expects them to follow America in polarising into two distinct groups . |