Example sentences of "expect any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Few shopkeepers expect any upturn in the next few months , ’ said a CBI spokesman . |
| 2 | The big fish and their consignment was expected any day . |
| 3 | By way of contrast , official 1991 accounts from the South Devon Railway Trust are expected any day , and will show that the largely volunteer run operation at Buckfastleigh has managed a healthy tax-free surplus of around £60,000 ! |
| 4 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 5 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't have expected any relation of Caro 's to be such an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy . |
| 7 | The riot had started from nothing ; nobody had expected any trouble . |
| 8 | A judgment is expected any moment ; but even if the OFT decides in Aldi 's favour , the matter will still have to be investigated further by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 9 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 10 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 11 | His expression made it clear that any man or boy unlucky enough not to find another situation need not expect any sympathy : his place would have been filled . |
| 12 | If you want to be , go ahead , but do n't expect any sympathy or back-up from me . ’ |
| 13 | But we can not expect any Psalm reflecting the years of oppression and revolt to be exactly comparable with the situation described from a later point of view in the Books of Maccabees ; and if we can not use the Books of Maccabees in this way any certain terms of comparison are lacking altogether . |
| 14 | Rather it was precisely to change attitudes , to stress individual responsibility — you 're on your own , do n't expect any help from us — and to reduce the state 's obligations . |
| 15 | ‘ All I 'm saying , George , is that you should n't expect any help from us . |
| 16 | But he ca n't expect any help form the Borough Council . |
| 17 | Neither Mr Fallon nor Mr Bergg can expect any help from the borough council . |
| 18 | Therefore the chances are , and this is statistical , it 's a statistical chance , in general I can expect any mutation in me to be passed on to half my offspring complete . |
| 19 | The representation is , of course , implicit and we would not expect any child to be able to state explicitly the phrase structure rules and transformations generating the sentences of his language . |
| 20 | Should I expect any building and development work in my resort ? |
| 21 | ‘ Arthur does n't expect any nonsense from him till July . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Owen , though , did not expect any difficulty . |
| 24 | We do not expect any component buying problem to be encountered by constructors of the Vehicle Watchdog . |
| 25 | DO N'T EXPECT ANY CHARITY |
| 26 | ‘ You do n't expect any payment when he becomes your apprentice ? ’ she continued . |
| 27 | Just do n't expect any mercy if you 're a complete dimbo … |
| 28 | Furthermore , we would expect any doctor , not just our own , to behave in the ‘ proper ’ manner , in the same way that we expect the same sort of behaviour from all shop assistants , or all priests , or all fathers . |
| 29 | Sixty per cent of 1800 managing directors interviewed did not expect any improvement either in sales or new orders and 80 per cent said that they would either not be recruiting new staff or shedding staff . |
| 30 | The vendor will , however , expect any estimate to be reasonably accurate and may ask for our fees to be capped at a certain level . |