Example sentences of "i [vb base] [not/n't] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One can not prove a personal judgment of this kind , and I do not expect immediate assent to it . |
2 | I am a woman , and also a writer who has used up her allotment of renown during her own lifetime ; and on those two grounds I do not expect much pity , or much understanding , from posterity . |
3 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
4 | I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible . |
5 | Hungarian-born Mr Soros , 62 , told a London news conference : ‘ I do n't expect other people to make donations of this size . |
6 | But I do n't expect much change out of £6,000 . ’ |
7 | Manager Andy Roxburgh said : ‘ I do n't expect any problems . |
8 | I do n't expect most people to agree with these figures . |