Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't expect things to be just good when you do them , however . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
| 5 | Isobel said , ‘ I do n't expect Peter minds as much as you do . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't expect happiness ! ’ |
| 7 | I do n't expect Scott and Emma will come in your car but I would just go with you if that 's okay . |
| 8 | yeah recruiting , dog shitting on their street etc etc etc that we do our best to deal with in the yer know time honoured tradition of a policeman and a and we 're police officer sorry , sorry Trace , er and er we just you know I think it 's more a P R O thing than er anybody , but I do n't expect you to man it , I do n't expect Jenny or Ann or or Jane to man it |
| 9 | Now , I do n't expect Matthew to support that for one moment , but what I 'm saying to committee is that is our pragmatic solution at this moment . |
| 10 | I do n't expect John Major to do so , but the TUC will . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't expect politicians from Britain and France to understand , and I do n't expect their politics to bring peace here . ’ |
| 12 | But you do n't expect rationality from such people . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So what , when you 're paying that much for the hi-fi you do n't expect sound quality you 'll get from a tape to tape , it 's thought , the sound quality is so crap you might as well just do it on a shit thing |
| 15 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
| 16 | We do n't expect videos from emerging artists because they can be very expensive , ’ explains Gatfield . |
| 17 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |
| 18 | We do n't expect Adrian to say ‘ life must go on ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ In this part of Austria , we do n't expect babies and toddlers to fit in with hotel routine ; we 've adapted the hotels to suit them , ’ claimed the tourist officer for Vorarlberg . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We do not expect doctors to run an intensive care unit simply by measuring the pulse rates of their patients . |
| 22 | We do not expect prices to rise generally for a further two years . |
| 23 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 24 | ‘ We tell our residents that we offer homes for life , and we do not expect people to move on , ’ she explained . |
| 25 | They do n't expect things to be done perfectly . |
| 26 | They do not expect security guarantees . |