Example sentences of "not expect [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |
| 3 | He had not expected Wang to be so upset , so patently indignant . |
| 4 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 5 | He does not expect miracles from Lennie and is not at all surprised when Lennie forgets things , even though he gets angry at him . |
| 6 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Did n't he think she was sophisticated enough not to expect commitment after a one-night stand ? |
| 10 | Married women who had not been receiving support from their husband when they were first interviewed , and were therefore not expecting support from him during subsequent crises , had a much reduced risk of depression if they received help from someone else whom they had named as very close at the first interview . |
| 11 | Jacob was not expecting forgiveness from his brother . |
| 12 | Bates — Not expecting miracles against France |
| 13 | We 're not expecting trouble from them and we 're there to help and direct them into the areas where they can get into the ground . |
| 14 | Nicholson 's customers are not price sensitive explains Tony , although he stresses that this is different to not expecting value for money . |