Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect my [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been a machine knitter for about 20 years and I still remember those early garments which I expected my family to wear . |
| 2 | I expect my employees to keep their minds on the job ! |
| 3 | For the rest of the year , for 358 days , I expect my mind to achieve autonomy over my problems and I plod on while life with a capital L proceeds independently of me . |
| 4 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
| 5 | How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job ? |