Example sentences of "they expect [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 2 | The day they expect me to pay for it , I shall retire . |
| 3 | ‘ They expect us to win by a reasonable margin nowadays . ’ |
| 4 | Travolta even tells his friend , ‘ If you dance with some of these girls , they expect you to sleep with them . ’ |
| 5 | They expect you to take 'em seriously , no matter how pitiful they are — in fact , the more pitiful they are , the more their wives at home probably laugh at 'em , the more they expect you to behave as if they was some Eastern potentate or something . |
| 6 | How could they expect him to perform with someone like that ? |