“Of course, I shall not expect Your Highness to-night,” she said; “but I hope you will send Colonel Moore; it will be well to have some one who [236] can, if necessary, use both head and sword—though I don’t anticipate the remotest difficulty in your——” A volley of cheers from without drowned her voice.
— from The Princess Dehra by John Reed Scott

My dear Mr. Momson ,—After what you have said, of course I shall not expect your boy back after the holidays.
— from Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope

Of course I should not expect you to run like my Buzfuz or Berry’s Reiver; but if you would just try a little bit to please me.”
— from Landseer's Dogs and Their Stories by Sarah Tytler

Well, under any circumstances, I should never expect you, as a woman, to side actively with either party in the civic dispute—indeed one might more properly call it the civil war—that is raging here.
— from Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen