Example sentences of "[verb] not expect [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not expect forgiveness . |
| 2 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 3 | Recalled from America in 1806 by the Grenville–Fox government , Merry , a Pittite , did not expect reassignment . |
| 4 | But they surely did not expect Lothar to accept these terms . |
| 5 | System builders that Microprocessor Report spoke to at Comdex last month said they did not expect volume production of Intel Corp 's Pentium chip until mid-1993 at best , suggesting the part has slipped another few months . |
| 6 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 7 | Do not expect equipment to withstand abuse , if it did it would be unaffordable . |
| 8 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 9 | They do not expect security guarantees . |
| 10 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
| 11 | But whoever these men had been , they had not expected stone and stone had won the day against the metal of their more ferocious weaponry . |
| 12 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |