Example sentences of "he [verb] not expect [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stated that he did not expect any hostility when he returned to London . |
| 2 | He did not expect domestic coal supplies to be insulated from world price trends — especially as government grants to the National Coal Board will have to rise over the next few years . |
| 3 | When Qaddafi abolished the state he did not expect Libyan society to collapse into fragments . |
| 4 | He had not expected colonial argot from such a source . |
| 5 | He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight . |