Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't expect Pete home any special time . ’ |
| 2 | I did n't expect Mr Meredith Williams to stay , ’ he said curtly . |
| 3 | Oh I did n't expect Clare to go down ill again . |
| 4 | Perhaps I had naively expected headlines of the HUMPHRY DAVY INVENTS MINERS ' SAFETY LAMP , ROSSINI WRITES FIRST OPERA , HENRY THOREAU BORN , kind of thing ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She 'd never expected rockets to go off and stars to shoot in all directions — leastways , not from just a casual brush of flesh against flesh … |
| 7 | You did n't expect Uncle to be in it … |
| 8 | You did n't expect people to clock in these days . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She did not expect Diana to tell her friends or for Morton to be given any more secret details about the royals . |
| 11 | Certainly she had not expected Felipe , and her tears stopped suddenly as she absorbed this new shock . |
| 12 | She had fully expected Penry to dismiss them as nonsense , and felt so shattered that he had n't that it took her longer than usual to clear away and leave the kitchen immaculate . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose you had never expected Faith to have any money of her own ? ’ she asked . |
| 14 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 15 | We gave up expecting GLF to solve our problems because we could see that it was essentially a movement built around the freedom to choose and practise your own sexuality . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But whoever these men had been , they had not expected stone and stone had won the day against the metal of their more ferocious weaponry . |
| 19 | What was evident was that they had all expected Comrade Andrew to join them , even Alice , who knew he disapproved . |
| 20 | He did not expect forgiveness . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had not expected things to go like this . |
| 23 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |
| 24 | He had not expected Wang to be so upset , so patently indignant . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Stephen would have liked further education , though he had n't expected Oxford or Cambridge or even , say , Nottingham . |
| 27 | ’ Perhaps it was the estrangement of Washington perhaps that he had n't expected Agnes at the Smithsonian but it had been a surprising thrill to see the familiar smile in the crowd . |