Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [pron] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | You do n't think I expected you to have two hundred pounds on you , do you ? |
| 3 | I expect him to improve another 30 per cent , ’ said Boutin . |
| 4 | I expect you to put these in your pocket |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The set was so tacky she expected it to collapse each time one of the characters came through the door . |
| 7 | You expected me to hate this one , did n't you ? |
| 8 | If he had ( as we all have ) some purely private thoughts and feelings and relationships and experiences , you expected him to keep those to himself , and not embarrass your dinner-party with them , or even bring them into his poems . |
| 9 | You expect me to know all the details of what is happening in a legion of divisions ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You expect me to believe that ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You expect me to believe that ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Did you expect them to leave all that in ? ’ he said . |
| 13 | Would n't you expect me to do that in the circumstances ? ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you expect me to believe that ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Do you expect me to believe that , Nan Ho ? |
| 16 | ‘ Do you expect me to believe that ? |
| 17 | ‘ Do you expect me to believe that ? ’ |
| 18 | If she expects you to treat that bitch politely , then you 'll do it . ’ |
| 19 | Now this overround tends to be larger in fields with a large number of runners , and also tends to be larger in these popular races , so that at times when there 's lots of money around the bookies , of course , and we expect them to do this , are very careful to make sure that the odds are well in their favour , because on these races where there 's lots of money staked their risk is higher . |
| 20 | Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health . |
| 21 | We expect them to have some degree of self-awareness , and self-regard , in their knowledge claims . |
| 22 | We expect them to make all the concessions . |
| 23 | We expect you to use all resources effectively and efficiently and only in the delivery of ES business . |
| 24 | ‘ We expect it to contribute 4.5 per cent of profits , and we base that on our expected group performance of 20 per cent organic growth a year . ’ |
| 25 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 26 | they expect me to pay another three hundred pounds a month out of seven hundred and twenty pounds net income , leaving me with twenty pounds a month to live on . |
| 27 | he had , he had a definite attitude problem so they said they would relieve him of his contract oh that 's fair enough , they 're paying you good money and they expect you to work hard and that 's it but we finish at one o'clock next term |
| 28 | and they 've stopped this on you and they expect you to pay all this amount of money I do n't know |
| 29 | Did they expect you to do that ? |
| 30 | He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred . |