Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] n't expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shouts that if I get soaked I need n't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me . |
| 2 | " 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 . " |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | You 're in prison , you should n't expect luxury . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ But you ca n't expect Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) to help us if we show we do n't trust him ! ’ |
| 8 | You ca n't expect miracles . |
| 9 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 10 | For that modest kind of money , of course , you ca n't expect perfection . |
| 11 | You ca n't expect people to tell you this , tell you that . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You ca n't expect Mummy and me to do all the talking about you know what . |
| 15 | You ca n't expect Merrill to alter her arrangements at a moment 's notice . |
| 16 | It was obviously very cheap , so she would n't expect compensation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Every day we change a little , but you would n't expect Matthew not to know us , would you , eh ? ’ |
| 19 | We ca n't expect gratitude , any more than we want charity from others . |
| 20 | We ca n't expect help from her . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |