Example sentences of "expect [pers pn] to come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum an , mum and dad expected me to come up last week |
| 2 | One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him . |
| 3 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 4 | When the public respond to your advertisements or because they have heard that you do personal injury work , it is not enough just to tell them that you do and expect them to come into the office . |
| 5 | My educational colleagues are a hard-bitten lot and I had not expected them to come out as complete ‘ quality ’ converts . |
| 6 | ‘ I had n't expected you to come back here tonight . |
| 7 | ‘ So you expect him to come back , do you ? ’ enquired Mr Grimwig . |
| 8 | I asked erm Ian yesterday to try and give me the dates so I , I 'm , I expect him to come back to me today with some idea on that . |
| 9 | ‘ We had expected her to come as well but we have now been told it is highly unlikely . ’ |
| 10 | He watched her walk away without speaking and enter the hall again ; he had expected her to come to the table to supervise Mary packing up the food . |
| 11 | In your shoes I 'd have expected him to come prepared with a big stick . ’ |
| 12 | I think it 's quite legitimate for this Committee to take that twenty thousand because it 's there , and to say to itself , post budget we will have to look at the whole of the areas covered by budget protection to find the replicated twenty thousands in future years , and not just expect it to come from registration . |
| 13 | ‘ People would expect me to come into a room and crack them up , ’ Rowan , 36 , told Cosmopolitan magazine . |
| 14 | ‘ But you did n't expect me to come . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He 's angry and irritable and he 's made it clear from the very beginning that he does n't expect me to come up to scratch . ’ |
| 16 | This was the essence of the problem : the press could only be managed by someone who knew their methods and who would not expect them to come round to Central Office to search for news . |
| 17 | I know I should n't really cos I should n't expect them to come back at all , but it annoys me when |
| 18 | ‘ Wo n't she expect you to come over once you 've been home and changed your shoes ? ’ |
| 19 | I did n't expect you to come so soon . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Oh — I did n't expect you to come round again . |
| 21 | ‘ What time do you expect him to come home ? ’ |
| 22 | You ca n't just wait and expect him to come to you . ’ |
| 23 | Erm again i er the old story , we ca n't get speakers on a Monday and better luck in last year this year , sorry er I was able to get Danny but there again he came very expensive erm but we brought , we had to bring him from Lancaster so er , you ca n't expect him to come for nothing . |
| 24 | I did n't expect him to come . ’ |
| 25 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 26 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Mind you , you 'll have to write out the replies yourself in your own handwriting and in your own words — they 'll expect it to come from you . ’ |
| 28 | Francis , hands thrust deep into his trouser pockets , said : ‘ I thought he seemed a bit queer at lunch but I did n't expect it to come to this … ’ |
| 29 | Where did you expect it to come from , bloody |
| 30 | He did n't expect us to come rolling out of the pubs drunk , and the Yorkshire pudding to get flung at the ceiling with the gravy running down the walls like the tears of a black madonna . |