Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] expect [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not exactly expect you to give your share away , mademoiselle . |
| 2 | I think it 's quite legitimate for this Committee to take that twenty thousand because it 's there , and to say to itself , post budget we will have to look at the whole of the areas covered by budget protection to find the replicated twenty thousands in future years , and not just expect it to come from registration . |
| 3 | Likewise , there is no reason why adjectives which are restrictive in attributive position should not be acceptable if used , say , predicatively with the same nouns ; only in that case , we do not normally expect them to have a restrictive value . |
| 4 | He does not really expect her to love him , and when she does it has to be total . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're not seriously expecting me to believe that ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But , Mrs Birkin , I could n't possibly expect you to go to all the trouble — ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't honestly expect me to agree to that idea ? ’ |
| 9 | You do n't honestly expect me to agree to a statement like that , do you ? ’ he snapped violently . |
| 10 | You would n't honestly expect me to let you get away with that sort of behaviour , would you ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You did n't honestly expect me to stay , did you ? ’ |
| 12 | You ca n't really expect me to go fishing about underneath your bed if I do n't even know what I might find under it , now can you ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I admire your tenacity in sticking to your story , ’ he intoned , ‘ but even you ca n't really expect me to believe a word of it . |
| 14 | They ca n't really expect him to have a physical game this afternoon can they with David Speedy ? |
| 15 | I did n't really expect you to go to bed with me , he said . |
| 16 | That was what stung most of all — the fact that he did n't even expect her to complete the one thing she loved doing in all the world , the one thing she was good at . |
| 17 | Come on , you ca n't seriously expect me to keep my nose out of things at this stage , Ellis . |