Example sentences of "did expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the military regimes of the Interregnum were prepared within reason to allow lay men and women to be godly in whichever way seemed most appropriate to them , they did expect them to be godly in some way . |
| 2 | Zakrewski confirmed that he did expect the legislation to hurt its Polish acquisition , DHI , which currently expects to turn over $15m in the market this year , and added ‘ The result will be that there will be some preferred companies who have been doing assembly that will be supported , and they will grow and make a huge amount of money by reselling imports , not by assembling ; it 's a scandal . |
| 3 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 4 | ’ That neither did she , but she did expect common civility . ’ |
| 5 | He really did expect her to follow him meekly into his bedroom . |
| 6 | It was still early so I did n't expect many customers , but I did expect more than one — me . |
| 7 | Er , I make a point of never saying I told you so , but we did expect the upturn to come , because fundamentally stru er , Camco is a strong business . |
| 8 | The point I I simply wanted to make which is why I I sat through the debate , erm is the honourable member for Edinburgh Central er in his er speech er which I I must say I did expect , called for stronger regulations , er we had the argument the other week about whether there should be statutory regulations or whether we should make er the er self regulation system that we have with financial services industries work . |
| 9 | Ruffled by it , her gladness was overlaid with vexation and she said crisply , ‘ You , on the other hand , did expect to meet me ? ’ |
| 10 | I did expect you to drop everything for me and when you did n't I did n't run after you , not because I was too proud to but because I was afraid , just as you were afraid . |
| 11 | What I did expect to see was an improvement from a somewhat disappointing Ards and a Linfield team which did the Irish League proud with an excellent performance against Dinamo Tbilisi the previous Wednesday evening . |
| 12 | Now that 's fair enough because we 've actually bunged more in in terms of testing , we 're covered in testing , and we 've got temps who are less productive , so to an extent we , we , we , we ou our budget did expect that bump . |