Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] not expect to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously there has to be ‘ give and take ’ on both sides ; for example , I would not expect to be guaranteed a space for the cycle if I turned up without a reservation . |
| 2 | For I can not expect to be offered help , nobody else will care to take a turn at the heavy work of pushing . |
| 3 | Mr Crosby said : ‘ I also have 10 important League matches left and have said all along that if we do n't win these as well I can not expect to be given the job here . ’ |
| 4 | If you do n't bill on time you ca n't expect to be paid on time . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm warm toward people , but you ca n't expect to be loved . |
| 6 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 7 | Believe in God for wrong reasons or for no reason at all and you can not expect to be free from doubt . |
| 8 | Indeed , you can not expect to be paid a great deal , but on the credit side you have no overheads and you will find the practice valuable , both in reading the pattern and using the machine . |
| 9 | You can not expect to be taken seriously with a bovine 's milking tackle perched on your bonce . |
| 10 | ‘ You can not expect to be in the national squad unless you can prove that you are good enough , so I just have to continue the learning process , equip myself fully for the task , get a bit fitter and that , hopefully , will be at least half the battle ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose we ca n't expect to be as spry as we were twenty years ago . ’ |
| 12 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 13 | He made the point that had the position been reversed he would not expect to be pestered after giving a straight answer . |
| 14 | If a surveyor does his work badly it goes without saying that he can not expect to be paid for it , but usually the client will also wish to claim damages as financial compensation . |