Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [not/n't] expect [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
2 | Isobel said , ‘ I do n't expect Peter minds as much as you do . ’ |
3 | I do n't expect Scott and Emma will come in your car but I would just go with you if that 's okay . |
4 | yeah recruiting , dog shitting on their street etc etc etc that we do our best to deal with in the yer know time honoured tradition of a policeman and a and we 're police officer sorry , sorry Trace , er and er we just you know I think it 's more a P R O thing than er anybody , but I do n't expect you to man it , I do n't expect Jenny or Ann or or Jane to man it |
5 | Now , I do n't expect Matthew to support that for one moment , but what I 'm saying to committee is that is our pragmatic solution at this moment . |
6 | I do n't expect John Major to do so , but the TUC will . ’ |
7 | I did n't expect Pete home any special time . ’ |
8 | I did n't expect Mr Meredith Williams to stay , ’ he said curtly . |
9 | Oh I did n't expect Clare to go down ill again . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
12 | She did not expect Diana to tell her friends or for Morton to be given any more secret details about the royals . |
13 | Certainly she had not expected Felipe , and her tears stopped suddenly as she absorbed this new shock . |
14 | We do n't expect Adrian to say ‘ life must go on ’ . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | He had not expected Wang to be so upset , so patently indignant . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Stephen would have liked further education , though he had n't expected Oxford or Cambridge or even , say , Nottingham . |
19 | ’ 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 . |