Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should I expect any building and development work in my resort ? |
| 2 | ‘ Why should I expect anything else ? |
| 3 | Why the hell should I expect anything else ? |
| 4 | But why should I expect her to change just because I have ? ’ |
| 5 | What sort of yield should I expect ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why should you expect that ? ’ |
| 7 | What little she knew of Mahon did n't suggest that , but what should she expect when genes were mutilated by chemical or neutron bombardment ? |
| 8 | And why should she expect him to change a system which benefited men so greatly ? |
| 9 | Should we expect them to be ‘ selfish ’ or ‘ ruthless ’ , if they have no alleles ? |
| 10 | We have come to appreciate that we can not expect children to live by our adult standards too early , or too quickly , without doing them harm ; but nor should we expect them to socialize themselves . |
| 11 | So what is on offer and what should we expect from these weighty tomes ? |
| 12 | And why should we expect to have detected leakages from the domestic radio and television transmissions of our hypothetical aliens when we have made no effort to do so ? |
| 13 | Nor should we expect the very few who do not want to teach to continue to do so when they might be more usefully employed in management , audit , service , or research tasks . |
| 14 | How virulent should we expect animal parasites to be ? |
| 15 | In this day and age , why should we expect that ? |
| 16 | Yet what degree of commitment should we expect from someone before we decide to label them a Jacobite ? |
| 17 | What else should we expect to find from such a source ? |
| 18 | And what more , what more should we expect from a Party that is led nationally by a man who , in 1983 , says , there are no circumstances in which I would order or permit the firing of a nuclear weapon , which leads somebody to say , Kinnock 's lust for power is so great that he 's prepared to ditch any principle to get it . |
| 19 | I mean there 's no reason because we have n't got men 's issues , because all issues are men 's issues , nobody expects a male Prime Minister to go for any particular issue , but why should we expect a woman Prime Minister to go particularly for certain issues ? |
| 20 | Sir George said , ‘ And what in particular might you expect to find ? ’ |
| 21 | No , it was true , but why on earth might she expect one . |
| 22 | What theme might we expect to find in the background of someone highly motivated by money over long periods ? |
| 23 | Why , why might we expect structural change to occur in this example ? |
| 24 | How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job ? |
| 25 | There was n't much of an atmosphere , well what could I expect with the home team doing so badly at the moment . |
| 26 | But what else could you expect of someone called Sebastian ? |
| 27 | ‘ How could you expect anyone to trust you with their conveyancing ? ’ she had said to him , only last week . |
| 28 | What more could you expect to do ? ’ |
| 29 | What could you expect ? he asked himself . |
| 30 | But then how could you expect someone like David Mellor to give up his sort of games for those they 're playing in Spain ? — . |