Example sentences of "expect [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Allow 1.2m ( 4ft ) between the plants and expect them to reach full size in four years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ They seem pathetic , when you compare them to adult humans , and expect them to do human things — because obviously they ca n't . |
| 5 | We expect them to have some degree of self-awareness , and self-regard , in their knowledge claims . |
| 6 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 7 | We expect you to use all resources effectively and efficiently and only in the delivery of ES business . |
| 8 | We may lend you any amount from £500 to £10,000 ( in units of £10 ) and , in certain circumstances , may advance 100% of the cost , although we normally expect you to make some contribution from your savings . |
| 9 | ‘ I certainly expect him to see this season out . |
| 10 | He had n't expected her to make this sort of use of the opportunity he had given her . |
| 11 | His mother , he knew , would never have expected him to walk those yards alone had she known that he suffered such atavistic panic , but she had n't known and he would have died before telling her . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely . |
| 13 | Do not encourage a young dog to jump up and greet you , for instance , and then expect it to abandon this behaviour at a later stage . |
| 14 | The House would not expect me to give any assurances about the timing of construction and the extent to which the investment appraisal test will be met . |
| 15 | and there 's twenty of them and the , I do n't suppose , they do n't expect me to fill both sides of all them tapes |
| 16 | ‘ Then you can hardly expect me to show much appreciation of your view of things , can you ? ’ |
| 17 | I am naturally extremely sorry to hear of the personal circumstances that the hon. Gentleman very properly brings to the attention of the House , but he will not expect me to prejudge any issue of criminality that may arise . |
| 18 | ‘ You ca n't expect me to believe this sob story ! ’ |
| 19 | Well , I 'm not like that , so do n't expect me to clear this course with my magic wand . ’ |
| 20 | If the cheapest supplies are from gas , they will purchase gas ; if it is coal , I would expect them to use coal-fired methods . |
| 21 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
| 22 | I could see that they did n't expect them to have much effect . |
| 23 | Ethics do have a place in the boardroom , and our employees , er employees in I B M , would expect them to have that place . |
| 24 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 25 | You 'd expect them to have opposite signs . |
| 26 | Naturally , we do n't expect you to fling real arrows at the best C64 mag on the market , no no no ! |
| 27 | ‘ Those new masters of yours will not expect you to adopt this perspective . |
| 28 | ’ In return for that amount , ’ y'Pripio went on , ’ we would expect you to maintain total discretion and loyalty for the duration if the contract . |
| 29 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 30 | Did he really expect her to believe such Peter Pan Wendy nonsense . |