Example sentences of "expect [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | ‘ They seem pathetic , when you compare them to adult humans , and expect them to do human things — because obviously they ca n't . |
| 3 | We expect you to use all resources effectively and efficiently and only in the delivery of ES business . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the CEMREL Research Project ( 1972 ) is any indication of what is expected it seems American teachers are looking for a child 's skill at ‘ showing ’ , and , in particular , ‘ showing ’ emotion . |
| 6 | Belinda met him in the front hall on his way to his sister 's room , and as expected he raised questioning eyebrows . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | If the cheapest supplies are from gas , they will purchase gas ; if it is coal , I would expect them to use coal-fired methods . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You 'd expect them to have opposite signs . |
| 13 | Naturally , we do n't expect you to fling real arrows at the best C64 mag on the market , no no no ! |
| 14 | Mitchell is also an ‘ old soldier ’ at this game but I do n't expect him to make any headlines . |
| 15 | We do n't expect it to cause any problems , and we will still be meeting him for talks some time over the next couple of days . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | But his family is extremely rich and I do n't expect he knows any shepherds . ’ |
| 18 | Obviously a lot of this racism has seeped down from the top ; for example the police are part of a racist legal system so you 've got to expect them to hold those views . |
| 19 | When a judge , particularly one with Lord Scarman 's breadth of mind , is appointed to inquire into an outbreak of violence and serious disorders on the streets of Brixton and the policing of the area , it is unrealistic to expect him to avoid any recommendations of a political nature as to the causes . |
| 20 | The insecticide is carried in a very penetrating light oil but it is nor fair to expect it to penetrate heavy deposits of dust , dirt and cobwebs before it reaches the timber . |
| 21 | But the Store nomes expected something to eat several times an hour . |
| 22 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 23 | It was Christmas Eve and , during the interval in Coriolanus that night , he put the bird in the oven , expecting it to take fourteen hours to cook . |
| 24 | And the way that the Government has reduced the provision it makes for higher education erm is that it is has so far erm kept us with the same amount of resources while expecting us to take more students . |
| 25 | He suggested that the club expected him to score more points . |
| 26 | The AIF expects it to take 68 months to complete st Lucie 2 in Florida , which is due to be commissioned this year . |
| 27 | Whilst the Spirit is ready to help prayerful communicators to guide them to hidden personal needs of which otherwise they would be unaware , he also expects us to take practical steps to discover the needs around us . |