Example sentences of "expect any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as the salon in Susan 's home town of Bristol was part of a reputable chain , she did n't for a moment expect any problems . |
| 2 | ‘ Few shopkeepers expect any upturn in the next few months , ’ said a CBI spokesman . |
| 3 | As might be expected any questions involving decimals were rather demanding , but it is noticeable that where the answer included a half success rates were higher than for 0.1 or unc and other decimals . |
| 4 | The big fish and their consignment was expected any day . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time . |
| 7 | He was glad neither expected any details . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't have expected any relation of Caro 's to be such an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy . |
| 11 | The riot had started from nothing ; nobody had expected any trouble . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If you want to be , go ahead , but do n't expect any sympathy or back-up from me . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ All I 'm saying , George , is that you should n't expect any help from us . |
| 20 | But he ca n't expect any help form the Borough Council . |
| 21 | Neither Mr Fallon nor Mr Bergg can expect any help from the borough council . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Should I expect any building and development work in my resort ? |
| 25 | ‘ Arthur does n't expect any nonsense from him till July . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Owen , though , did not expect any difficulty . |
| 28 | We do not expect any component buying problem to be encountered by constructors of the Vehicle Watchdog . |
| 29 | DO N'T EXPECT ANY CHARITY |
| 30 | ‘ You do n't expect any payment when he becomes your apprentice ? ’ she continued . |