Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] expect [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I do n't expect much change out of £6,000 . ’ |
| 6 | I did not expect such kindness … |
| 7 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't expect this treatment from my father 's oldest friend , ’ said Monks angrily , sitting down with a frown on his face . |
| 9 | I did n't expect this match . ’ |
| 10 | I did n't expect this match . ’ |
| 11 | I did n't expect this sort of driving from a three-times world champion . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't expect any payment when he becomes your apprentice ? ’ she continued . |
| 14 | It was humiliating , and she had not expected that kind of reaction from him . |
| 15 | She had accepted that she could not help loving him , but she had not expected this result . |
| 16 | No , we do n't expect any background knowledge at all . |
| 17 | No , we do n't expect any background knowledge at all . |
| 18 | We do n't expect this sort of thing to happen to us . ’ |
| 19 | We do not expect any component buying problem to be encountered by constructors of the Vehicle Watchdog . |
| 20 | We do not expect any blowback . ’ |
| 21 | He stated that he did not expect any hostility when he returned to London . |
| 22 | He did not expect domestic coal supplies to be insulated from world price trends — especially as government grants to the National Coal Board will have to rise over the next few years . |
| 23 | When Qaddafi abolished the state he did not expect Libyan society to collapse into fragments . |
| 24 | He had not expected colonial argot from such a source . |
| 25 | He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight . |