Example sentences of "could [pron] expect " in BNC.
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1 | How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job ? |
2 | There was n't much of an atmosphere , well what could I expect with the home team doing so badly at the moment . |
3 | But what else could you expect of someone called Sebastian ? |
4 | ‘ How could you expect anyone to trust you with their conveyancing ? ’ she had said to him , only last week . |
5 | What more could you expect to do ? ’ |
6 | What could you expect ? he asked himself . |
7 | But then how could you expect someone like David Mellor to give up his sort of games for those they 're playing in Spain ? — . |
8 | What else could you expect from the gentry ? |
9 | Still , what could you expect . |
10 | What could you expect from a pup with a mere nine peacock feathers in his eagle helmet 's crest ? |
11 | ‘ But if you never told them what turned you on , how could you expect — ‘ |
12 | But what could she expect ? |
13 | How could she expect to take on the powerful Lucenzo Salviati — a man with centuries of trickery in his blood — and come out top ? |
14 | How could she expect to do a proper job without the right equipment ? |
15 | Well , what could she expect ? |
16 | So if Bill Clinton becomes the 42nd president of the United States , what action could we expect him to take to stimulate America 's ailing economy ? |
17 | Nor could we expect the adherents of each approach to treat any anomaly as a reason for rejecting it . |
18 | What else could one expect ? |
19 | They would simply raise disdainful eyebrows and say what else could one expect of the lower orders ; the Irish ? |
20 | How could they expect him to perform with someone like that ? |
21 | ‘ What could he expect — running off like that ! ’ |
22 | Well , what could he expect … ? |
23 | Taste seemed irrelevant — but touch … how on earth could he expect me even to pretend to believe that what I might touch was ‘ psychic ’ ? |
24 | After all , what could he expect to find ? |
25 | Could he expect Nebamun to do it for him ? |
26 | And if he was n't in control , how could he expect to control her ? |
27 | But on neither count could he expect a very sympathetic hearing in Washington . |
28 | Only through such an accidental , miraculous chance could anyone expect to shake off the yoke of grimly limited prospects . |
29 | But what could anyone expect ? |