Example sentences of "expect [pron] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's pretty fast and I expect everyone to be going at quite a lick from the start , ’ he said . |
| 2 | My masters expect me to be hunting for news . ’ |
| 3 | I mean , I write things in a certain way , so I expect them to be played in a certain way . |
| 4 | They say that parents who pay for their children 's education expect them to be given homework . |
| 5 | Analysts that have seen the things at beta test sites in the US expect them to be announced next year for delivery in 1994 — but analysts are almost always too optimistic in forecasting IBM announcement dates . |
| 6 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 7 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 8 | She wanted to giggle ; she had expected them to be told to hold hands and summon up the spirits of the dead . |
| 9 | If you 'd put those clothes there would you have expected them to be found sooner or later ? ’ |
| 10 | But surely you could n't have expected me to be carrying something so valuable around with me ? ’ |
| 11 | I would have expected you to be doing that . |
| 12 | ‘ I expect you to be gone by the time I get back . ’ |
| 13 | And by the time I get back to the house I expect you to be gone . ’ |
| 14 | Or he occasionally buys a er a shirt with a a fine stripe in it , but he says the continentals expect you to be wearing a white shirt . |
| 15 | The screw would shout ‘ Doses ’ and expect you to be waiting by the front door . |
| 16 | Brockbank , owner of a Teesside construction company , said : ‘ We have spoken to a few people and expect something to be sorted out by the middle of the week . ’ |
| 17 | Anthony had always known that she loved Julia , but after the things Comfort had said at Christmas he had not expected her to be thrown into quite such terror . |
| 18 | He had expected her to be sitting in the little ticket office with her friend Maureen , but instead he found the office locked and in darkness and the entire frontage of the cinema deserted . |
| 19 | But he had n't seemed the type somehow — she would n't have expected him to be drawn by the lure of so-called fame . |
| 20 | In presenting it that night , Robert Naish would most certainly have expected it to be rejected by the weight of bondholders already known to oppose redemption . |
| 21 | She had expected it to be weighted , to feel cold and heavy . |
| 22 | But he had expected it to be directed by concern for the dead rather than against him as the perpetrator of their demise . |
| 23 | One of the most important conclusions of the Glacier studies was that there is a distinctive leadership role in groups , and that members ( in their roles as participants ) expect it to be filled properly . |
| 24 | Did people expect it to be liquified and work on it until it happened , or was it just an accidental discovery ? |
| 25 | They expect good law that makes sense for business and they expect it to be applied uniformly across the Community , both by implementation and by proper enforcement . |
| 26 | I have a contract which I honour and I expect it to be honoured . |
| 27 | We expect the law to be enforced , we expect it to be held because every citizen who lives under that law may change it . |
| 28 | The GATT round is regularly discussed at the Agriculture Council and I expect it to be considered again at the Council on 30 and 31 March . |
| 29 | Nottingham Forest are planning a £500,000 bid for the big Ballyclare man ; expect it to be tabled some time next week . |
| 30 | You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word . |