Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] expect [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not expect him to be ‘ faithful ’ , but he was . |
| 2 | The man talked non-stop and did not expect me to contribute . |
| 3 | Alington allowed him and two other canons to introduce the daily sacrament on condition that they did not expect it to be part of the cathedral 's official usage . |
| 4 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 5 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 6 | Not that Eliot harboured any illusions about the efficacy of his work — although Notes … was selling well , he did not expect it to have much influence . |
| 7 | ‘ I did not expect it , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Imagination and nerves just when you did not expect it . |
| 9 | But when the time came she did not expect he would want to leave his shooting … |
| 10 | There were twenty of us , other chaps in much the same boat as me , Nancy our tutor was cheerful , down to earth and did not expect us to be cordon bleu cooks . |
| 11 | And do not expect them to be up to date — if you carry on reading Practical PC you might soon know more about state of the art computing than the tutor . |
| 12 | I am enclosing tickets for the new play and as they are in the front stalls , I may see you as I come on , ; but do not expect me to salute you , you understand , as I shall be taken up with my part . |
| 13 | But do not expect me to understand , let alone share , your views . |
| 14 | But do not expect me in your bed , Prince Yuan . |
| 15 | Do not expect me to congratulate you , madam , I am too busy congratulating myself that I am not the father-in-law of a man who can speak so demeaningly of any young girl in public . |
| 16 | When I move against them do not expect me to treat you differently from the way I treat them . |
| 17 | They do not expect him to lose but can not quite see how he is going to win . |
| 18 | Do not expect him to always be amused , though ; he is a very powerful man . |
| 19 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 20 | Although shareholders , we do not expect you to alter your currently successful business strategy . |
| 21 | ‘ Ethel , ’ continued Miss Hardbroom , ‘ just because you happen to be an excellent scholar and one of the most helpful members of my class , I do not expect you to lie your way out of a situation when it has become awkward . |
| 22 | I do not expect you to understand . ’ |
| 23 | I do not expect you to haggle , for example , but an element of bartering over hours and conditions can improve your working life considerably . |
| 24 | I do not expect you to agree with me on everything . |
| 25 | A heated propagator will maintain a higher temperature than the ambient air , but do not expect it to achieve a lift of more than about 10°C ( ie , if you wish to maintain 21°C/70°F , the greenhouse should be heated to 10°C/50°F ) . |
| 26 | If you have come with a particular ache or pain , do not expect it to disappear straight away . |
| 27 | I believe that the new generation of " 16 bit " machines ( such as the ACT Sirius 1 ) will prove to be well capable of meeting these demands If I may be permitted one small advertisement , I do not expect it to be long before I can fulfil my objective of promoting the use of micros in personnel through the marketing of systems developed specifically for this field . |
| 28 | It is clear from our analysis in the previous section that we do not expect the strange invariant set produced at r 13.926 to be stable and we do not expect it to show up in numerical simulations ; the behaviour described in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) above ( r } 13.926 ) can not be predicted from the purely local analysis . |
| 29 | They clearly did n't expect we would stand firm . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Would n't be the first time your husband 's come back when you did n't expect him , would it ? ’ |