Example sentences of "i expect [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From an early age I expected them to do things for themselves , and sometimes for me , and when they snivelled about their friends having kind and conscientious mothers who changed their sheets and made fruit pies , I said ‘ Some day , when you 're at Sunderland Polytechnic and living by your wits , you 'll thank me . ’ |
| 2 | They do n't understand about spies and I expect they eat merchants . ’ |
| 3 | I expect they made love with the lights out . |
| 4 | ‘ I expect you mean will O'Farrell be back , ’ Mrs Carson said . |
| 5 | ‘ I expect you remember Sally , our maid ? |
| 6 | ‘ I expect you do press-ups , ’ said Lili , playfully pinching his upper arm . |
| 7 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 8 | ‘ I expect he prefers cheese and onion to beef , ’ confirms long-time total stranger Kevin Costner , ‘ Most vegetarians do . ’ ’ |
| 9 | I 'd not expected to convince the police at the top of the falls that I was a very sane person , nor did I expect them to believe Paul 's emergency story that we were a group of passing Hippies taking our kayaks for a walk . |