Example sentences of "did 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 .
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