Example sentences of "[coord] do [adv] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it would be wrong to say Wales is a weak region on the basis of this , it 's just not , does n't appear , or does n't expect to grow as strongly as it was growing . |
| 2 | We have a good crew and do n't expect any radical changes . |
| 3 | And do n't expect me to be there tonight , you pig ! |
| 4 | Instead of comparing their offer with the normal rate , Clydesdale have used the business rate — paid by guests who stay mid-week and do n't expect to book and pay in advance . |
| 5 | I do n't know her and do n't expect to . |
| 6 | I 'll never get married again , so do n't hang around waiting for it , and do n't expect to have me at your beck and call , because that is n't how I am . |
| 7 | Always ask for a slice cut freshly from the salame and do not expect to get the true flavour from a pre-cut chunk on a plate . |
| 8 | 3 If you are coming back from injury or lay-off , go slowly — train progressively and do not expect to be doing the same times as you were before . |
| 9 | Other Japanese companies-Hitachi , Toshiba , Matsushita — have treated LC TVs more as a design exercise , and do not expect to market models for a while . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 12 | The difficulty was that the evangelicals took a low view of the deans and chaplains of colleges , and did not expect that anything run by them would have force and challenge . |
| 13 | He was certainly not one of the ‘ tame ’ scholars and did not expect the young people to be so . |
| 14 | It does not do to attribute human motives to animals but Billy said afterwards that it was as if she was reluctant to leave and did not expect to be back . |
| 15 | The man talked non-stop and did not expect me to contribute . |
| 16 | It anticipated that business failures of established companies will continue to rise into the first quarter of 192 and did not expect to see a significant fall in the level of failures for up to 18 months . |
| 17 | As a result I knew that I had recovered everything within the detecting capabilities of my old machine and did not expect that there would be anything left to be found . |
| 18 | Tess was not surprised at Mrs d'Urberville 's cold manner , and did not expect any more of such a great lady . |
| 19 | Although she was not at ease herself and did not expect to be until she had told him all the painful things he would surely wish to know . |
| 20 | There were twenty of us , other chaps in much the same boat as me , Nancy our tutor was cheerful , down to earth and did not expect us to be cordon bleu cooks . |
| 21 | None of this meant that American companies were no longer interested in financing British filmmakers or even British ideas , but they were no longer committed to doing so , and did n't expect to be sufficiently involved to justify keeping offices in London . |
| 22 | I suggest she opened the window for someone else , and did n't expect her own fingerprints to be taken . |
| 23 | Did her own work and did n't expect me to clear up after her . |
| 24 | And did n't expect that he ever would . |
| 25 | ‘ She knows we 're anxious to see him , and does n't expect him to go rushing off to see her the minute he arrives . ’ |
| 26 | But be warned — he 's an unashamed surrealist and does n't expect people to understand his paintings now any more than they did then . |
| 27 | The county council says it hopes to give residents a choice on where they 'll be moved to and does n't expect compulsory redundancies among care staff . |
| 28 | He is deeply insecure and does n't expect love , never having received it before , yet he deals with Miranda 's death so matter-of-factly , hardly seeming upset at all , that he ca n't have cared for her very much as an individual , which is not surprising as he really does n't know her at all well . |
| 29 | AEA has not seen a copy and does not expect to do so . |
| 30 | But do not expect American protectionists to give up : next year , as domestic demand revives , the deficit will surely widen again . |