Example sentences of "not expect [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not been brutal enough to mention the office rumour and Ayling had not expected his words to be interpreted that way . |
| 2 | She had not expected his mind to contain this kind of landscape . |
| 3 | Even the king , who , unlike his district governor , had practised these precepts himself , had not expected his subjects to do so too , though he hoped they would strive towards the ideal . |
| 4 | She does not expect her readers to accept her own conclusions verbatim , but urges them to make a similar creative attempt to listen for the deeper implications of the Christian message , to reach through the dogmas and intellectual propositions , which can never do justice to the ineffable mystery of the divine , and touch the heart of the faith . |
| 5 | Many royalists had gone into exile in the colonies , especially Virginia , and the new government could not expect its orders to be obeyed on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 6 | In between the publication of the White Paper and the passing of the new Act , the government decided that in view of the work required on the hospital services , it could not expect its community care proposals to be ready by the proposed launch date of April 1991 , so in early 1990 it announced a two-year delay in implementation until 1993 . |
| 7 | He could not expect their interest . |
| 8 | Most MPs who voted against Lloyd George in 1922 did not envisage a Unionist government as the final outcome , and the defeated ministers did not expect their discomfiture to be permanent . |
| 9 | Parents can not expect their children to get on with each other but family life is very difficult if there is continuous bickering and jealousy between children . |
| 10 | I 'd not expect your favours for nothing . ’ |
| 11 | Obviously , do not expect your pet to settle down readily on a wet or uncomfortable surface . |
| 12 | Do n't leave your decision to the last moment — you should not expect your surveyor to hurry a report which can potentially save you thousands of pounds — talk to him as soon as you have chosen your purchase . |
| 13 | I should like it to be understood that we in Northern Ireland do not expect our tourism promotion to be taken over by Bord Failte . |
| 14 | In fact we were , rather condescendingly , informed that teaching methods had changed since the 1960s and we could not expect our child to be educated in the same manner as we ourselves had been . |
| 15 | ‘ We should not expect our tenants to have to look at the mess caused by their careless neighbours , ’ said Coun Dixon . |
| 16 | If we remain ‘ stuck ’ Christians , we can not expect our children to become ‘ growing ’ Christians . |
| 17 | We can not expect our competitors on mainland Europe to put up with such discrimination . |
| 18 | ‘ We have ejected people in the past who were suspected of selling or taking drugs but you can not expect our security staff to make arrests , ’ said the spokesperson . |
| 19 | However , we do not expect our computers to be capable of experiencing emotions , even though emotions are clearly a fundamental part of human intelligence . |
| 20 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 21 | ‘ But you need not expect my goodwill if you choose to consort with the enemy . ’ |
| 22 | She heard her father say , " Then , by the Holy Sacrament it is his promise he has broken , and can not expect my daughter to keep hers . " |
| 23 | I do not expect my father to lend me money simply because he is a father . |
| 24 | Wood indeed advocates three bedrooms , but it is clear from the majority of his designs that he does not expect his labourers to achieve them . |
| 25 | Mr Smith said in an interview on BBC television 's On the Record that he did not expect his colleagues to ‘ spend and spend again' when they took office . |
| 26 | At least Mandru did not expect his Ixmaritians to perform naked , as was the traditional custom . |
| 27 | He classified his poems on Hartleian principles , e.g. Imagination , Affection , Sentiment and Reflection , and in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads he explained that one of the functions of poetry is to show how ‘ we associate ideas in a state of excitement ’ ; Wordsworth did not expect his poems to ‘ gratify certain known habits of association ’ — he will provide new associations and ‘ create the taste by which he is to be enjoyed ’ . |
| 28 | Now creditors have been told not to expect their money back . |
| 29 | I am not expecting my parents to be reaching the end of their life when they are fortyish but I am likely to be expecting this , although probably unconsciously , when my parents are ninetyish . |
| 30 | She had n't expected her stomach to churn , her throat to close up , at the sound of ripping fabric and flesh . |