Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
2 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
3 | ‘ I do n't expect things to be just good when you do them , however . |
4 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
5 | Isobel said , ‘ I do n't expect Peter minds as much as you do . ’ |
6 | ‘ I do n't expect happiness ! ’ |
7 | I do n't expect Scott and Emma will come in your car but I would just go with you if that 's okay . |
8 | yeah recruiting , dog shitting on their street etc etc etc that we do our best to deal with in the yer know time honoured tradition of a policeman and a and we 're police officer sorry , sorry Trace , er and er we just you know I think it 's more a P R O thing than er anybody , but I do n't expect you to man it , I do n't expect Jenny or Ann or or Jane to man it |
9 | Now , I do n't expect Matthew to support that for one moment , but what I 'm saying to committee is that is our pragmatic solution at this moment . |
10 | I do n't expect John Major to do so , but the TUC will . ’ |
11 | I do n't expect politicians from Britain and France to understand , and I do n't expect their politics to bring peace here . ’ |
12 | I did n't expect Pete home any special time . ’ |
13 | I did n't expect Mr Meredith Williams to stay , ’ he said curtly . |
14 | Oh I did n't expect Clare to go down ill again . |
15 | Perhaps I had naively expected headlines of the HUMPHRY DAVY INVENTS MINERS ' SAFETY LAMP , ROSSINI WRITES FIRST OPERA , HENRY THOREAU BORN , kind of thing ! |
16 | She 'd never expected rockets to go off and stars to shoot in all directions — leastways , not from just a casual brush of flesh against flesh … |
17 | You did n't expect Uncle to be in it … |
18 | You did n't expect people to clock in these days . |
19 | But you do n't expect rationality from such people . |
20 | You do n't expect players to be warned for excessive aggression at this level , but they were , and the first to be admonished was an old hand at listening to finger pointing lectures . |
21 | So what , when you 're paying that much for the hi-fi you do n't expect sound quality you 'll get from a tape to tape , it 's thought , the sound quality is so crap you might as well just do it on a shit thing |
22 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
23 | She did not expect letters but on hearing from her the news of Hal 's birth , they had at once despatched an enormous bearskin : a gift for the child . |
24 | She did not expect Diana to tell her friends or for Morton to be given any more secret details about the royals . |
25 | Certainly she had not expected Felipe , and her tears stopped suddenly as she absorbed this new shock . |
26 | She had fully expected Penry to dismiss them as nonsense , and felt so shattered that he had n't that it took her longer than usual to clear away and leave the kitchen immaculate . |
27 | ‘ I suppose you had never expected Faith to have any money of her own ? ’ she asked . |
28 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
29 | We do n't expect videos from emerging artists because they can be very expensive , ’ explains Gatfield . |
30 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |