Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [not/n't] expected [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly she had not expected Felipe , and her tears stopped suddenly as she absorbed this new shock . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had not expected things to go like this . |
| 4 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |
| 5 | He had not expected Wang to be so upset , so patently indignant . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Stephen would have liked further education , though he had n't expected Oxford or Cambridge or even , say , Nottingham . |
| 8 | ’ 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 . |