Example sentences of "[noun sg] i expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a B M X bike I expect . |
| 2 | Well in that case I expect , you know , some of us could become a caretaker if they 're having to pay us |
| 3 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 4 | ‘ Comes of having a mathematical mind I expect , ’ observed Milton . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , with your mind I expect you can , ’ he teased . |
| 6 | Next day we found a good army doctor who examined Rachel and said with care she would soon be well , the M & B had done its work , and then to add to our trouble you all went down with scarlet fever — caught on the boat I expect . |
| 7 | I 'm so glad you did n't disappoint me — just the greeting I expected . |
| 8 | In the pouring bloody rain and howling wind I expect . |
| 9 | and looking from my window I expect to see |
| 10 | Have another green I expect . |
| 11 | ‘ Because , as it turns out , you 've developed the intelligence I expected of you , and I suppose there 's some excuse for what you were at nineteen . |
| 12 | When I was finally allowed up and I went back to my own home I expected to forget you . |
| 13 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 14 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 15 | For a moment I expected a knuckle-rapping response , but after a brief hesitation , he said , ‘ My verse was obscure because I was obscure to myself . |
| 16 | At any moment I expected one of the masters , placed at strategic intervals to stop a guy taking short cuts or lighting up a Havana cigar , to leap out from a place of concealment , brandishing The Times and bellowing , ‘ Come on , Britton ! |
| 17 | Torquay was the last place I expected something like this to happen . ’ |
| 18 | It was the sort of jargon I expected from you-know-who . |
| 19 | I reached the flat just after so helped her carry clean sheets and towels upstairs as well as my luggage and B. The two bedrooms in the flat are small — ‘ compact ’ in estate agency jargon I expect ! — and the bathroom is very nice with a washing machine in it . |
| 20 | In my warm , sleepy contentment I expected it to be Toby , the Toby of before . |
| 21 | Yeah If you could hear what she say it 'd make a difference I expect I 'd of gone for another vowel there , it you 'd gone for E it of been |
| 22 | And the erm ni the , the , the capsules and the er Nitrous Albide I expect are the ones he 's going to change though the problem is exactly what to . |
| 23 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
| 24 | Jealousy I expect . |
| 25 | ‘ Fair enough , they 'll get you for Poll Tax I expect . ’ |
| 26 | sold in the shop I expect . |
| 27 | Since he really was a very competent chemist I expect it did . |
| 28 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 29 | Reviewers would put ‘ When I first heard the name I expected four guys in Factory haircuts ’ . |
| 30 | By the third day I expect third-years to work alone , and if you slip up , gal , I 'll have your guts for garters ! |