Example sentences of "expect [pron] husband " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they visit I expect my husband to be polite to them . |
| 2 | HEARD in a City tavern last night : ‘ I expect my husband to be just the same in 20 years time as he is now . ’ |
| 3 | The poet 's wife tried to avoid going , by saying that it was late for the child and that she would have expected her husband not to be curious . |
| 4 | In an early 1950s mining community , husbands kept their wives ' allowances low so that they could skip a shift if they wished , but few wives expected their husbands ‘ to work for nothing ’ and it is not difficult to find examples of wives exercising considerable control over all but the husband 's pocket money . |
| 5 | ‘ She can expect her husband at her side , and that 's what she 's going to get . ’ |
| 6 | Mrs Barnet tells me that she expects her husband when she sees him . |
| 7 | Men confused by some of the changes in women 's own expectations of marriage have found it hard to adjust to a wife who now expects her husband to be a thoughtful and technically competent lover , a housefather and a co-counsellor . |