Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | You did n't expect Uncle to be in it … |
| 13 | He surely did n't expect Peter never to marry ? |
| 14 | I did n't expect Pete home any special time . ’ |
| 15 | Oh I did n't expect Clare to go down ill again . |
| 16 | Doctors did n't expect John Fillon-Payoux to survive . |
| 17 | I did n't expect Mr Meredith Williams to stay , ’ he said curtly . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're in country loyal to the King and my lord did n't expect trouble . |
| 20 | You did n't expect people to clock in these days . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had not expected things to go like this . |
| 23 | He had not expected Wang to be so upset , so patently indignant . |
| 24 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |
| 25 | Certainly she had not expected Felipe , and her tears stopped suddenly as she absorbed this new shock . |
| 26 | He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman . |
| 27 | ’ Perhaps it was the estrangement of Washington perhaps that he had n't expected Agnes at the Smithsonian but it had been a surprising thrill to see the familiar smile in the crowd . |
| 28 | Stephen would have liked further education , though he had n't expected Oxford or Cambridge or even , say , Nottingham . |