Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] expect [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not expect your favours for nothing . ’ |
| 2 | I think that 's the trouble with Christmas , I said to Rob , in a way , I said I hope when I get to mum and dad 's age I wo n't expect my children to think oh god you got to go there for you know I said that I 'd love to just once take the kids away and go somewhere |
| 3 | ‘ I sha n't expect my wife to travel the world with me , so that 's where you 'll stay . |
| 4 | " I hate to cut you short , " said Richard from the hatch , " it 's only that I can hardly expect my staff to be in time if I 'm late myself . " |
| 5 | Do n't leave your decision to the last moment — you should not expect your surveyor to hurry a report which can potentially save you thousands of pounds — talk to him as soon as you have chosen your purchase . |
| 6 | You could n't expect her novels to make money . |
| 7 | " You could hardly expect my people , weak and hungry as they are , to carry them all the way from King Darzin 's garden . |
| 8 | ‘ But you need not expect my goodwill if you choose to consort with the enemy . ’ |
| 9 | Now Trading Standards have told Mrs Clifford she ca n't expect her money back . |
| 10 | ‘ We have ejected people in the past who were suspected of selling or taking drugs but you can not expect our security staff to make arrests , ’ said the spokesperson . |
| 11 | ‘ We should not expect our tenants to have to look at the mess caused by their careless neighbours , ’ said Coun Dixon . |
| 12 | After this , we might fairly expect our journey to have led us to some certainties about the language . |
| 13 | In fact we were , rather condescendingly , informed that teaching methods had changed since the 1960s and we could not expect our child to be educated in the same manner as we ourselves had been . |
| 14 | We can not expect our competitors on mainland Europe to put up with such discrimination . |
| 15 | If we remain ‘ stuck ’ Christians , we can not expect our children to become ‘ growing ’ Christians . |
| 16 | In between the publication of the White Paper and the passing of the new Act , the government decided that in view of the work required on the hospital services , it could not expect its community care proposals to be ready by the proposed launch date of April 1991 , so in early 1990 it announced a two-year delay in implementation until 1993 . |
| 17 | He could not expect their interest . |
| 18 | Nothing was said about his next move , except that he could hardly expect his sister to take him in now , and that he was unwilling , under any circumstances , to move to Purley . |