Example sentences of "[pron] expect me " 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 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
3 | Nobody expects me to say that you could gig with either of these amps , do they ? |
4 | ‘ I do n't think that she expected me to run down the shot ’ said Emmons , referring to her magnificent dash across the baseline to reach an all but winning forehand from Bentley which would have given her not only the first set , but also the psychological ‘ first blood ’ . |
5 | I was , after all , living with a man who was stealing from me , keeping part of his life secret from me , who expected me to adapt myself to his obsessive timekeeping . |
6 | You expected me to hate this one , did n't you ? |
7 | What is the issue is that you expected me to stay and I did n't . |
8 | ‘ You expected me to drop my life and my career for you because that 's what a Majorcan girl would have done . ’ |
9 | ‘ You expect me to believe that ? ’ |
10 | ‘ I suppose you expect me to pay for that drink , do you ? ’ |
11 | The counsellor said , ‘ You are describing Sarah in a very loving and respectful way — but you sound angry when you say that you expect me to pull you up for not describing her as a lover , too . |
12 | ‘ You say things like that and you expect me to bloody well sleep with you . ’ |
13 | I 've the feeling that you expect me to say something to you ? |
14 | You expect me to know all the details of what is happening in a legion of divisions ? ’ |
15 | ‘ You expect me to admit it ? ’ |
16 | I 'm through with you and Gran always telling me what you want , what you expect me to be … . ’ |
17 | ‘ You expect me to believe that drivel ? ’ ranted the professor . |
18 | And you expect me to keep that confidential . |
19 | You expect me to keep that a secret — from your wife , your children , relatives , superiors — the world at large , in fact . ’ |
20 | You expect me to detach myself from my non-bourgeois essence … to honour your gods , your fathers , your Revolution … |
21 | You expect me to protect you . |
22 | ‘ Yet you expect me to conduct the case and arrive at decisions , even order an arrest , while sitting at a desk . ’ |
23 | ‘ It is when you expect me to accept a pronouncement about men offered as fact and founded on ignorance , ’ he responded at once . |
24 | Besides , you want to put me ashore , so unless you expect me to swim — ’ She broke off , gasping as the boat , no longer held fast by its anchor , swung wildly . |
25 | ‘ You expect me to believe that ? ’ |
26 | ‘ And you expect me to give in to it , to some biological urge ? ’ |
27 | ‘ The same way you expect me to keep myself for your use now , ’ Maria snapped derisively , scalded by the shame of the knowledge that that was exactly what she was going to do , and tired of hearing about her supposed affair with Florian . |
28 | ‘ You expect me to accommodate you in that ? ’ |
29 | ‘ And you expect me to work for you , knowing you have not one ounce of faith in my abilities as a landscape designer ? ’ |
30 | ‘ And you expect me to agree to all that ? |