Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [not/n't] expect [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shouts that if I get soaked I need n't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me . |
| 2 | " Well , keeping the place straight , " Siegfried said ; " I would n't expect perfection but you could tidy up each day , and of course prepare the meals . " |
| 3 | I tell you this because I know that I can not expect trust if I do not give it . |
| 4 | You 're in prison , you should n't expect luxury . |
| 5 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 6 | For that modest kind of money , of course , you ca n't expect perfection . |
| 7 | You ca n't expect Mummy and me to do all the talking about you know what . |
| 8 | It was obviously very cheap , so she would n't expect compensation . |
| 9 | DJ Supreme from Hijack 's offering is particularly raw , and seems mightily generous : you would n't expect Terminator X to give away his secrets , after all . |
| 10 | We may not expect consumer behaviour , right , to be the same at all prices and quantities basically but er , nevertheless , you will probably see more linear demand curves than nonlinear ones because they are somewhat simpler . |
| 11 | We ca n't expect gratitude , any more than we want charity from others . |
| 12 | We ca n't expect help from her . ’ |
| 13 | I know this is a bit of an affront to our high opinion of ourselves as human beings , er , of course many people regard it that way , but erm my view is that er we ca n't expect science necessarily to tell us things we want to hear . |
| 14 | Here the modest claim is made that without the social services , a section of the population will be permanently unemployed because in advanced industrial societies ‘ we can not expect industry to create many extra jobs because of the speed of technical change and job-saving investment . ’ |
| 15 | As a well-known republican who had twice taken arms against Britain he could not expect clemency , and he was shot by a firing squad in Kilmainham gaol 5 May 1916 . |