Example sentences of "expect [pron] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They expected me to be a lawyer too . |
| 2 | What I discovered at this point , was that they , my Thai co-workers , also expected me to be the teacher for this newly organised project ! |
| 3 | She expected them to be ready , mounted , properly turned out and willing . |
| 4 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 5 | The danger is that they might turn out to be entirely different from how you expected them to be . |
| 6 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 7 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 8 | Hunter , Joyce , and Redruth were told what was happening , and were less surprised that we expected them to be . |
| 9 | But EMAP said yesterday that by cutting overheads , it expected them to be profitable this year . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's pretty fast and I expect everyone to be going at quite a lick from the start , ’ he said . |
| 11 | My masters expect me to be hunting for news . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
| 13 | She looked across the terrace to the grim yew trees and thought , That 's how they all expect me to be — silent and still . |
| 14 | I 'm through with you and Gran always telling me what you want , what you expect me to be … . ’ |
| 15 | Or am I simply what they expect me to be ? |
| 16 | ‘ Then I 'm going to The Casbah , so expect me to be late . ’ |
| 17 | Somehow we expect them to be happy to be kept in a place which is warm and dry , where they can eat to their heart 's content with their companions ; but no , they become quite upset . |
| 18 | A word of caution : we dare not simply burst in on others with a glibly phrased formula and expect them to be warm with forgiveness . |
| 19 | I mean , I write things in a certain way , so I expect them to be played in a certain way . |
| 20 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 21 | At least when a guest is misbehaving they 're where we expect them to be . |
| 22 | CERN 's technical record is such that few expect them to be insurmountable , though the original specifications for the magnets — two-thirds as powerful again as the SSC 's — may not be met . |
| 23 | Analysts that have seen the things at beta test sites in the US expect them to be announced next year for delivery in 1994 — but analysts are almost always too optimistic in forecasting IBM announcement dates . |
| 24 | Allow 45cm ( 18in ) between plants , and expect them to be slow to establish . |
| 25 | For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time . |
| 26 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 27 | We expect them to be here . |
| 28 | They say that parents who pay for their children 's education expect them to be given homework . |
| 29 | what they expect them to be |
| 30 | Neither she nor Nick were particularly tidy ; at home , in their warm , muddly house , no one had expected them to be . |