Example sentences of "expect [pers pn] to " 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 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 10 | I never expected them to , I 'll tell you the truth , but then again at that age you do n't think they ever will or it 'll ever happen to you do you ? |
| 11 | But EMAP said yesterday that by cutting overheads , it expected them to be profitable this year . |
| 12 | You know , they told me , and the they were on , and they were like they really expected them to just make up and they started having a fight ! |
| 13 | My masters expect me to be hunting for news . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
| 15 | ‘ You say things like that and you expect me to bloody well sleep with you . ’ |
| 16 | She looked across the terrace to the grim yew trees and thought , That 's how they all expect me to be — silent and still . |
| 17 | I 'm through with you and Gran always telling me what you want , what you expect me to be … . ’ |
| 18 | Or am I simply what they expect me to be ? |
| 19 | And they expect me to co be coming in from here , |
| 20 | ‘ But the board know when contracts are up and now they expect me to just sign for a year . |
| 21 | ‘ Then I 'm going to The Casbah , so expect me to be late . ’ |
| 22 | We stand to derive immense benefits from such releases of genetically engineered organisms into the environment — providing they do what we expect them to . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And sometimes things do n't work out the way you expect them to . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I mean , I write things in a certain way , so I expect them to be played in a certain way . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Both managements are doing all we expect them to . ’ |
| 29 | At least when a guest is misbehaving they 're where we expect them to be . |
| 30 | Finally , on the day that I 'd promised to ring the breeder back and let him know one way or the other , a miracle happened — one of those strokes of luck that seem to come along when you least expect them to . |