Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [not/n't] expect [adj] [noun] " 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 Hungarian-born Mr Soros , 62 , told a London news conference : ‘ I do n't expect other people to make donations of this size .
6 But I do n't expect much change out of £6,000 . ’
7 Manager Andy Roxburgh said : ‘ I do n't expect any problems .
8 I do n't expect most people to agree with these figures .
9 Everyone in the village is shocked , you do n't expect such things to happen in a quiet backwater .
10 You do n't expect finer feelings in a thief ? ’
11 You do n't expect any payment when he becomes your apprentice ? ’ she continued .
12 No , we do n't expect any background knowledge at all .
13 No , we do n't expect any background knowledge at all .
14 We do n't expect this sort of thing to happen to us . ’
15 Even so we do not expect such spells to lead to permanent changes in our lifestyle .
16 Although we predict that many of these sites are DNA-PK phosphorylation sites , we do not expect all Ser-Gln motifs to serve as DNA-PK recognition elements .
17 We do not expect any component buying problem to be encountered by constructors of the Vehicle Watchdog .
18 We do not expect any blowback . ’
19 Although they appear to have stabilised , we do not expect those markets to settle down until Spring next year particularly with the impact of a weak dollar .
20 He said er but of course the thing is they do n't expect elderly ladies to notice their car numbers and remember them .
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