Sentence examples for could only expect from inspiring English sources

Normally a girl could only expect such ludicrous generosity if her boyfriend was Victor Kiam.

It added: "During previous attempts, we could only expect a landing accuracy of within 10 kilometres (six miles).

He said that his family could "only expect the worst" given that they had not heard from the couple since the attack.

We could only expect that he might invade".

Then as now, Buffett said that a company of Berkshire's size could only expect to mildly outperform the S&P.

The killing of the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo has received the attention one could only expect.

Each time the photographer clicks his shutter, the film holds a freeze frame of the resulting "portrait," just long enough to cast these people into the timeline of history, frozen in place before events they could only dimly expect, and we know all too well.

Even with additional finagling to the tax code, the CRS says, the government could only realistically expect to get its hands on about $100 or $150 billion of that $1.1 trillion.

As secretary of state, Clinton could only be expected to have had some input into the decision on how to handle the Libyan crisis; the same can be said of Rice and Power in their respective roles.

Perhaps it could only be expected, given the gust of emotions sweeping over the crowd gathered at the site and the fact that many of the readers were young children.

Teddy and Nancy both get leave in 1943 and spend it together by the sea, and he proposes, or perhaps she does – and then in the midst of that scene we're pulled briefly forward to their marriage after the war, at Chelsea register office, although Teddy in 1943 could only have expected "to die at any given moment".