Example sentences of "expect [pers pn] [verb] [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 | ‘ I expect you find this means of transport too slow , ’ Fen suggested . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When they understood what was expected we had few communication problems . |
| 11 | Glancing round at the noisy throng , Ellie observed helpfully , ‘ I expect they find each other 's groups more interesting . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I certainly expect him to see this season out . |
| 13 | He had n't expected her to make this sort of use of the opportunity he had given her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I expect it had some help , then , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 19 | Belinda met him in the front hall on his way to his sister 's room , and as expected he raised questioning eyebrows . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | ‘ Then you can hardly expect me to show much appreciation of your view of things , can you ? ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ You ca n't expect me to believe this sob story ! ’ |
| 25 | Well , I 'm not like that , so do n't expect me to clear this course with my magic wand . ’ |
| 26 | If the cheapest supplies are from gas , they will purchase gas ; if it is coal , I would expect them to use coal-fired methods . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | I could see that they did n't expect them to have much effect . |
| 29 | Ethics do have a place in the boardroom , and our employees , er employees in I B M , would expect them to have that place . |
| 30 | 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 . |