Example sentences of "had not [verb] [pers pn] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not wanted her to be here any more than she 'd wanted to come . |
| 2 | Alain had not allowed her to be where he would have to talk to her . |
| 3 | Anthony had always known that she loved Julia , but after the things Comfort had said at Christmas he had not expected her to be thrown into quite such terror . |
| 4 | Fergus looked up , because for all Dierdriu 's hubris , he had not expected her to be so suddenly direct . |
| 5 | She looked at me , slightly surprised , as if she had not expected me to be interested . |
| 6 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 7 | He had not expected it to be so beautiful . |
| 8 | The head said he thought that on the whole it was a very fair report — he had not expected it to be without criticisms . |