Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Having become heartily sick of my private life myself , I could hardly expect others to take a more charitable view . ’ |
| 2 | As I was unable to see how I could realistically expect students to take responsibility for classes after only six weeks in the School of Education , I decided ( after much self doubt ) to put the students on their first teaching practice in the fourth and fifth years of schools offering our joint GCE O Level/CSE French for Communication syllabus where they would be expected to work with the teachers in a variety of roles . |
| 3 | She shouts that if I get soaked I need n't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me . |
| 4 | " Well , keeping the place straight , " Siegfried said ; " I would n't expect perfection but you could tidy up each day , and of course prepare the meals . " |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I tell you this because I know that I can not expect trust if I do not give it . |
| 7 | You 're in prison , you should n't expect luxury . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you 'd hardly expect Jim Lancaster to ring me up and confess , would you ? ’ |
| 11 | You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead . |
| 12 | ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ But you ca n't expect Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) to help us if we show we do n't trust him ! ’ |
| 15 | You ca n't expect miracles . |
| 16 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 17 | For that modest kind of money , of course , you ca n't expect perfection . |
| 18 | You ca n't expect people to tell you this , tell you that . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You ca n't expect Mummy and me to do all the talking about you know what . |
| 22 | You ca n't expect Merrill to alter her arrangements at a moment 's notice . |
| 23 | It was obviously very cheap , so she would n't expect compensation . |
| 24 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 25 | DJ Supreme from Hijack 's offering is particularly raw , and seems mightily generous : you would n't expect Terminator X to give away his secrets , after all . |
| 26 | Every day we change a little , but you would n't expect Matthew not to know us , would you , eh ? ’ |
| 27 | Where , say , tench are concerned , you can confidently expect tench in the early morning and know your chances are practically non-existent in the afternoon , which is the case on almost all tench waters . |
| 28 | On the other hand , if the weather is already hot and the water temperature is 70° F. or more , then the wind suddenly springs up and brings a drop in water temperature and a rise in the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water , you can also expect fish . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You can hardly expect lightning to strike twice in the same family . ’ |