Example sentences of "not expect [pron] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House would not expect me to give any assurances about the timing of construction and the extent to which the investment appraisal test will be met . |
| 2 | I am naturally extremely sorry to hear of the personal circumstances that the hon. Gentleman very properly brings to the attention of the House , but he will not expect me to prejudge any issue of criminality that may arise . |
| 3 | ‘ Those new masters of yours will not expect you to adopt this perspective . |
| 4 | A freshly bought loaf , still warm from the oven , smells and tastes delicious — but we would not expect it to taste good a week later . |
| 5 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 6 | Not that Eliot harboured any illusions about the efficacy of his work — although Notes … was selling well , he did not expect it to have much influence . |
| 7 | You 're not expecting him to do that . |
| 8 | I 'm not expecting you to take this on personally . |
| 9 | Do n't worry , I 'm not expecting you to eat much , just a little bit . |
| 10 | He had n't expected her to make this sort of use of the opportunity he had given her . |
| 11 | and there 's twenty of them and the , I do n't suppose , they do n't expect me to fill both sides of all them tapes |
| 12 | As the Queen they would n't expect me to do much . |
| 13 | Director Paul Spicer said : ‘ Do n't expect me to discuss this with you . |
| 14 | You ca n't expect me to believe that ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You ca n't expect me to believe this sob story ! ’ |
| 16 | Well , I 'm not like that , so do n't expect me to clear this course with my magic wand . ’ |
| 17 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 18 | He waved to the bartender , knowing that he could n't expect her to make any coherent reply to such compliments . |
| 19 | I could see that they did n't expect them to have much effect . |
| 20 | The Pentagon 's own fault , really , although you ca n't expect them to admit this . |
| 21 | The shop was closed as the season was virtually over by now , and , although she did n't know what plan he had up his sleeve , she did n't expect him to do more than breeze in and out . |
| 22 | Mitchell is also an ‘ old soldier ’ at this game but I do n't expect him to make any headlines . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure you ladies do n't expect us to believe that 's what lies behind all this . ’ |
| 24 | Eighty or 90 percent of the population down south did n't expect us to win this . ’ |
| 25 | We do n't expect it to cause any problems , and we will still be meeting him for talks some time over the next couple of days . ’ |
| 26 | Do n't expect it to do all the fancy layout stuff that PageMaker can handle but look at it as a tool for creating automatic invoices , business forms , price lists and so on . |
| 27 | But do n't expect it to cost any more by law a midwife must attend your birth and this will be provided by the NHS . |
| 28 | She said , and I did n't expect you to say that . |
| 29 | Naturally , we do n't expect you to fling real arrows at the best C64 mag on the market , no no no ! |
| 30 | Well she said she did n't expect you to use all of 'em did n't she ? |