Example sentences of "they expect [noun] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Fundamentalists believe so totally in the reality of their message and of the Jesus they preach that they expect lives to be touched and changed .
2 Management say they expect cargoes to be handled normally pending any national decision by the Transport and General Workers Union .
3 Yet customers walk through an entrance with 24ft stone pillars to reach our bar and they expect prices to be high in such an environment . ’
4 Significantly , the greeting trill is normally done when they are on the move , usually when they have come in from outside and are about to move off towards the place where they expect food to be waiting .
5 They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel .
6 A staggering 52% — mostly females — said they expect rates to be higher in 12 months ' time with a consequent knock-on effect on mortgages .
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