Example sentences of "expect [pers pn] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His only concern was for his own men and for the standards and traditions he expected them to live up to . |
| 2 | ‘ And you expect me to give in to it , to some biological urge ? ’ |
| 3 | I asked erm Ian yesterday to try and give me the dates so I , I 'm , I expect him to come back to me today with some idea on that . |
| 4 | Therefore , if a clause giving a reason for such an action has a pronominal subject , we expect it to refer back to the questioner . |
| 5 | And that , as long as they did n't expect me to turn up to every committee meeting . |
| 6 | This was the essence of the problem : the press could only be managed by someone who knew their methods and who would not expect them to come round to Central Office to search for news . |
| 7 | And , if she wrote now telling them they 'd split up , they 'd expect her to go out to Australia , and how could she with no money ? |
| 8 | You should expect him to listen carefully to those problems and take notes and measurements , paying specific attention to narrow doorways , lifts , steps , working obstructions and restrictions , route conditions and floor or ground surfaces . |
| 9 | One might expect it to lead only to a rather vague pantheism which could make no real place either for religious institutions or for specific doctrines and formulations . |
| 10 | She probably expected him to nip off to his gunsmith , buy an AK-47 assault rifle , and bomb down to Southend to take reprisals . |
| 11 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 12 | The only snag in his life is everybody expects him to live up to his heart-throb image . |