Example sentences of "not expect [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 2 | He does not expect miracles from Lennie and is not at all surprised when Lennie forgets things , even though he gets angry at him . |
| 3 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 4 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't expect things to be just good when you do them , however . |
| 7 | They do n't expect things to be done perfectly . |
| 8 | You do n't expect players to be warned for excessive aggression at this level , but they were , and the first to be admonished was an old hand at listening to finger pointing lectures . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't expect gratitude from these buggers , ’ he says . |
| 10 | It 's an exciting opportunity to see a country that came in from the cold — just do n't expect 130mph plus autobahns ! |
| 11 | We ca n't expect help from her . ’ |
| 12 | You did n't expect Uncle to be in it … |
| 13 | Artists who had been turned down ca n't expect assistance from a record company which already has a number of signed acts needing help and attention . |
| 14 | The council does n't expect Swindon to be ready for an assault on Britain in Bloom for some time , but it 's convinced all the effort 's worth it . |
| 15 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 16 | But you do n't expect rationality from such people . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
| 18 | Do n't expect Wills to be the perfect ruler |
| 19 | Do n't expect Wills to be the perfect ruler |
| 20 | Do n't expect Wills to be the perfect ruler |
| 21 | We do n't expect videos from emerging artists because they can be very expensive , ’ explains Gatfield . |
| 22 | You have to sell yourself and your ideas this year so do n't expect people to automatically recognise your merit and worth . |
| 23 | Do n't expect masses of templates , fonts and DTP pretensions from the word processor in PFS:WindowWorks , for example . |
| 24 | They were relaxed , joking amongst themselves ; it was a relief to be on a march where they did n't expect trouble after the last few weeks of demonstrations and violence . |
| 25 | I do n't expect politicians from Britain and France to understand , and I do n't expect their politics to bring peace here . ’ |
| 26 | Clearly you ca n't expect admissions of people with disabilities er for example , taking one aspect of that er cultural and er that policy , to be high if you know the building itself is physically inaccessible . |
| 27 | WHEN we cast our votes at election time , we do n't expect candidates to be paragons of virtue but we do expect honesty and integrity — traits completely lacking in this discredited Government . |