Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you this because I know that I can not expect trust if I do not give it . |
| 2 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 3 | You would anyhow not expect on this occasion any words of wisdom from me , indeed my wife and four daughters would doubtless tell you that you should never expect words of wisdom from me . |
| 4 | It was obviously very cheap , so she would n't expect compensation . |
| 5 | We have come to appreciate that we can not expect children to live by our adult standards too early , or too quickly , without doing them harm ; but nor should we expect them to socialize themselves . |
| 6 | Their commitment to each other was made , after all , and she could n't expect Rohan to jettison every other aspect of his life in her favour . |
| 7 | He has a lifetime 's belongings here and we could hardly expect Carrie to move into Fern Cottage . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But you ca n't expect Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) to help us if we show we do n't trust him ! ’ |
| 9 | Every day we change a little , but you would n't expect Matthew not to know us , would you , eh ? ’ |
| 10 | But you can never expect Horowitz to toe the party line which is why , in the end , he succeeded in making so many first-rate recordings . |
| 11 | But it may be that more fundamental changes to the present institutional arrangements for audit will be needed before we can realistically expect auditors to be proactive in assessing and reporting on business risk . |