Example sentences of "expect others [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far too often those in authority expect others to obey and so use formal and even terse language when penning memos . |
| 2 | Young children often show a great interest and delight in their faeces and expect others to do the same . |
| 3 | ‘ And we expect others to keep coming forward . ’ |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Having become heartily sick of my private life myself , I could hardly expect others to take a more charitable view . ’ |
| 5 | Rather , that person is also entitled to expect others to behave towards him or her in certain ways . |
| 6 | No , they 're too idle , expecting others to do as they demand ; it 's just not possible . |
| 7 | She had a " tremendous capacity for absorbing work " , often expecting others to achieve the " impossible yesterday " . |
| 8 | ‘ Ca n't you see ? ’ , he would ask ; ‘ do n't you feel … ca n't you hear ? ’ , as he rushed from one place or book or topic to another , expecting others to have the same reactions , so that Frank Tait , a cultured and intelligent man , described how he ‘ hurried out of breath to seem less far behind ’ . |
| 9 | I think she 's very optimistic if she expects others to go by bus so that she can get her car out of Muirwood Road , to get to work in Wester Hailes . |
| 10 | Besides , it could be very profitable : PR firms set an inflated value on their own services , and they expected others to do the same . |
| 11 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |