Example sentences of "ca [adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't expect miracles . |
| 2 | We ca n't expect help from her . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But you ca n't expect Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) to help us if we show we do n't trust him ! ’ |
| 4 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 5 | We ca n't expect gratitude , any more than we want charity from others . |
| 6 | When you 've had an industrialist as a father and you know how a business works , you ca n't expect farmers to ignore every business principle to be Green . |
| 7 | Artists who had been turned down ca n't expect assistance from a record company which already has a number of signed acts needing help and attention . |
| 8 | You ca n't expect people to tell you this , tell you that . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't expect people to come out of prison and go dashing to the social security — not on the day of their release . ’ |
| 10 | I know this is a bit of an affront to our high opinion of ourselves as human beings , er , of course many people regard it that way , but erm my view is that er we ca n't expect science necessarily to tell us things we want to hear . |
| 11 | For that modest kind of money , of course , you ca n't expect perfection . |
| 12 | Clearly you ca n't expect admissions of people with disabilities er for example , taking one aspect of that er cultural and er that policy , to be high if you know the building itself is physically inaccessible . |
| 13 | You ca n't expect Mummy and me to do all the talking about you know what . |
| 14 | You ca n't expect Merrill to alter her arrangements at a moment 's notice . |