Example sentences of "[pron] do [adv] expect [adj] " 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 | ‘ The reason I have called you both here is to remind you that you are now second-year witches , and I do not expect this ridiculous feud between you two girls to continue . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hungarian-born Mr Soros , 62 , told a London news conference : ‘ I do n't expect other people to make donations of this size . |
| 7 | I do n't expect you to remember Higginbottom and Smith fifty four y'know I do n't expect that in an exam . |
| 8 | I was surprised to hear you have a fear of drowning , but I do n't expect that is bothering you on a big ship . |
| 9 | But I do n't expect much change out of £6,000 . ’ |
| 10 | Of course , I do n't expect all the little people reading it to attain the heights I have — and I mean , literally , the heights . |
| 11 | Manager Andy Roxburgh said : ‘ I do n't expect any problems . |
| 12 | We 've actually had a Delegates Conference in April and we meet the company in July and I do n't expect any sold the bread waiting for a massive increase in pay . |
| 13 | I do n't expect any of the players in Cwmni Theatr y Dreflan will suffer from any such illusions of greatness . |
| 14 | I do n't expect most people to agree with these figures . |
| 15 | If you do n't expect much from little Tommy then , little Tommy is less and less likely to give you anything much ! |
| 16 | ‘ You do n't expect that for a job paying £120 a week take home . |
| 17 | But you do n't expect that . |
| 18 | Everyone in the village is shocked , you do n't expect such things to happen in a quiet backwater . |
| 19 | You do n't expect finer feelings in a thief ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't expect any payment when he becomes your apprentice ? ’ she continued . |
| 21 | Is it because you do n't expect any better of Egyptians anyway ? ’ |
| 22 | No , we do n't expect any background knowledge at all . |
| 23 | No , we do n't expect any background knowledge at all . |
| 24 | We do n't expect this sort of thing to happen to us . ’ |
| 25 | Even so we do not expect such spells to lead to permanent changes in our lifestyle . |
| 26 | Although we predict that many of these sites are DNA-PK phosphorylation sites , we do not expect all Ser-Gln motifs to serve as DNA-PK recognition elements . |
| 27 | We do not expect any component buying problem to be encountered by constructors of the Vehicle Watchdog . |
| 28 | Doubtless there will be no thanks for that and we do not expect any . |
| 29 | We do not expect any blowback . ’ |
| 30 | Although they appear to have stabilised , we do not expect those markets to settle down until Spring next year particularly with the impact of a weak dollar . |