Example sentences of "expect [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't expect me to be surprised , do you ? ’ |
| 2 | By the same token , he would not expect me to be found playing with his Gameboy . |
| 3 | And do n't expect me to be there tonight , you pig ! |
| 4 | DAMON HILL joined the elite band of Formula One drivers yesterday and then warned : ‘ Do n't expect me to be the new Nigel Mansell . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't expect me to be sorry he left the place to me and not to you . |
| 6 | ‘ How do you expect me to be ? |
| 7 | " Do n't expect me to be here when you get back . " |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't expect me to be a faithful husband , will you ? |
| 9 | Yeah well you ca n't expect me to be perfect all the time . |
| 10 | I 'm used to similar excerpts in The Telegraph and in the local press , but do n't expect them to be so boring . |
| 11 | Nor did he expect them to be republished . |
| 12 | It 's the job of the reporter to interpret facts and schools can not expect them to be mere mouthpieces . |
| 13 | Should we expect them to be ‘ selfish ’ or ‘ ruthless ’ , if they have no alleles ? |
| 14 | You ca n't expect them to be anything yet , straight from — well — ’ Better not underline their intended destination before being deflected by Uncle Knacker . |
| 15 | Although the machine intelligences we create will be based on our own form of intelligence and an extension of it , we can nevertheless expect them to be alien in many ways . |
| 16 | ‘ They have n't been involved for quite a while so you could n't really expect them to be picked , ’ said Thorstvedt , who is likely to be Norway 's last line of defence on October 14 . |
| 17 | Most shops are prepared for your to do this with expensive boots , but do n't expect them to be exchanged if they 've been marked in any way or worn outside ! |
| 18 | Butterflies and moths are among the most beautiful insects and one does not expect them to be venomous or poisonous . |
| 19 | You can not expect them to be house-trained and , indeed , this can subsequently prove a far more arduous task than normal . |
| 20 | If the military regimes of the Interregnum were prepared within reason to allow lay men and women to be godly in whichever way seemed most appropriate to them , they did expect them to be godly in some way . |
| 21 | Only in the case of money , over which men may retain control even when the domestic division of labour is less rigid , might one expect them to be more actively involved in exchanges of support with kin . |
| 22 | So the lesson is that if you use masking tape , or any other pressure sensitive tape , to hinge your works of art on paper , you should expect them to be showing yellow stains form the adhesive in four to five years time . |
| 23 | Our own children are now so far removed from danger , at least of the primal kind , and these Masai are so close to it , that you would expect them to be cowed and fearful . |
| 24 | ‘ I said : no , when you get someone running very fast and you 're using th a second , you ca n't expect them to be . |
| 25 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 26 | On the other hand we have noticed that the Greeks were much less curious than we would expect them to be about certain countries within their reach and indeed well inside their sphere of economic and cultural influence . |
| 27 | But if light is composed of particles , one might expect them to be affected by gravity in the same way that cannonballs , rockets , and planets are . |
| 28 | He could not expect them to be warmed by the idea of daffodils coming up outside . |
| 29 | And do not expect them to be up to date — if you carry on reading Practical PC you might soon know more about state of the art computing than the tutor . |
| 30 | The eventual winners were the ever-so knowledgeable team from R & D ( well , you 'd expect them to be bright would n't you ? ) |