Example sentences of "[pron] expect people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect people will react to the idea in a typical way . |
| 2 | ‘ Lee Clark certainly has the potential to score a lot of goals and I expect people like Brian Kilcline to hit some from set pieces . ’ |
| 3 | I expect people to regard this as my house and not to abuse my privacy . |
| 4 | I expect people stop demonstrating for all sorts of reasons : age , infirmity , clashing responsibilities , or sheer apathy . |
| 5 | Mind you I expect people could come round here and say |
| 6 | He was not going to get a bike because he would n't be able to reach the pedals , but I would n't have said anything even if I could have , because nobody expects people to tell the truth to women and , besides , that 's what friends are for , as they say . |
| 7 | ‘ How can you expect people to take you seriously , if you do n't have any convictions about anything ? ’ |
| 8 | So , this is , this is just one week , are you expecting people to continue after they 've er , they 've sampled the delights of , of the low alcohol ? |
| 9 | We expected people to just come and go , but most did n't — they had a great get together . ’ |
| 10 | In the way that military tactics fail by being repeated without regard to changed environment and situation , we expect people to live up to their reputation when the circumstances in which they are performing are very different . |
| 11 | Aiming at 70 Implementor sales for 1993 , Hugh McCartney , the company 's managing director said that 75% of business will still come from people developing applications for the AS/400 : ‘ We expect people to migrate in two to three years . |
| 12 | We expect people to pay their debts . |
| 13 | How can we expect people from developing nations to make sacrifices for the good of mankind , while we continue to squander and pollute ? |
| 14 | They all wanted flattery and nonsense and if they did anything that was n't right they expected people to cover up for them . |
| 15 | How do they expect people to visit ? ’ |
| 16 | They say he expects people to shoot the other chap in the back , if they possibly can . ’ |
| 17 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |