Example sentences of "do [adv] expect [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I move against them do not expect me to treat you differently from the way I treat them . |
| 2 | But do not expect me to understand , let alone share , your views . |
| 3 | Do not expect me to congratulate you , madam , I am too busy congratulating myself that I am not the father-in-law of a man who can speak so demeaningly of any young girl in public . |
| 4 | I am enclosing tickets for the new play and as they are in the front stalls , I may see you as I come on , ; but do not expect me to salute you , you understand , as I shall be taken up with my part . |
| 5 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 6 | They do not expect him to lose but can not quite see how he is going to win . |
| 7 | I do not expect you to agree with me on everything . |
| 8 | ‘ Ethel , ’ continued Miss Hardbroom , ‘ just because you happen to be an excellent scholar and one of the most helpful members of my class , I do not expect you to lie your way out of a situation when it has become awkward . |
| 9 | Although shareholders , we do not expect you to alter your currently successful business strategy . |
| 10 | I do not expect you to haggle , for example , but an element of bartering over hours and conditions can improve your working life considerably . |
| 11 | I do not expect you to understand . ’ |
| 12 | It is clear from our analysis in the previous section that we do not expect the strange invariant set produced at r 13.926 to be stable and we do not expect it to show up in numerical simulations ; the behaviour described in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) above ( r } 13.926 ) can not be predicted from the purely local analysis . |
| 13 | A heated propagator will maintain a higher temperature than the ambient air , but do not expect it to achieve a lift of more than about 10°C ( ie , if you wish to maintain 21°C/70°F , the greenhouse should be heated to 10°C/50°F ) . |
| 14 | If you have come with a particular ache or pain , do not expect it to disappear straight away . |
| 15 | We do n't expect him to live . " |
| 16 | Do n't expect him to do the same . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's quite good at that , though I do n't expect him to do it again ! ’ |
| 18 | And I do n't expect him to lie down and die under these current aspects . |
| 19 | ‘ In fact , from what Goibniu said , I rather think they do n't expect him to get back at all . ’ |
| 20 | Mitchell is also an ‘ old soldier ’ at this game but I do n't expect him to make any headlines . |
| 21 | They have short attention spans so do n't expect them to sit for hours on end without fidgeting , yawning or falling asleep . |
| 22 | If you see prepared hyacinths still on sale , do n't expect them to flower at Christmas — it 's too late . |
| 23 | What you may not expect however is that at Saab , although we build things to last , we do n't expect them to last indefinitely . |
| 24 | I do n't expect them to jack it in . ’ |
| 25 | When I meet people I like , instead of saying more and showing I like them and asking questions , I sort of clam up , as if I do n't expect them to like me , or as if I 'm not interesting enough for them . |
| 26 | * Use cohesive markers , but do n't expect them to create connections between unconnectable material ( see pp. 100 – 4 ) . |
| 27 | Here again , do n't expect them to take the boots back if they 've been marked or worn outside . |
| 28 | I do n't expect them to leave here with a catalogue of stories about what a terrible place Whitely is . |
| 29 | Do you think that teachers really do n't expect them to do well in the sciences and perhaps even positively discourage them from going into science ? |
| 30 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |