Example sentences of "[verb] not expect [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He did not expect forgiveness .
2 She did not expect letters but on hearing from her the news of Hal 's birth , they had at once despatched an enormous bearskin : a gift for the child .
3 ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all .
4 Recalled from America in 1806 by the Grenville–Fox government , Merry , a Pittite , did not expect reassignment .
5 But they surely did not expect Lothar to accept these terms .
6 He did not expect Osman openly to agree but he thought it quite likely that the Sheikh might indicate his willingness to accept Owen 's proposition .
7 The government , which did not expect Sweden to gain admission to the EC before 1994 , had previously expressed interest in framing a joint application with Norway and Finland .
8 Shieldaig did not expect visitors and there was no welcome for strangers .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 She did not expect Diana to tell her friends or for Morton to be given any more secret details about the royals .
12 I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime .
13 We do not expect doctors to run an intensive care unit simply by measuring the pulse rates of their patients .
14 We do not expect prices to rise generally for a further two years .
15 The committee do not expect members participating to be put to any expense or undue trouble , the proposal is merely to be an ‘ old boy ’ friend in a strange town or country .
16 The Zande do not expect things to work unless they are properly made .
17 ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ?
18 Do not expect equipment to withstand abuse , if it did it would be unaffordable .
19 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 .
20 Lawson says do not expect EMS news
21 They do not expect security guarantees .
22 ‘ We tell our residents that we offer homes for life , and we do not expect people to move on , ’ she explained .
23 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 .
24 You did n't expect Uncle to be in it …
25 He surely did n't expect Peter never to marry ?
26 I did n't expect Pete home any special time . ’
27 Oh I did n't expect Clare to go down ill again .
28 Doctors did n't expect John Fillon-Payoux to survive .
29 I did n't expect Mr Meredith Williams to stay , ’ he said curtly .
30 They were relaxed , joking amongst themselves ; it was a relief to be on a march where they did n't expect trouble after the last few weeks of demonstrations and violence .
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