Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not expect [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't expect happiness ! ’ |
| 3 | You did n't expect Uncle to be in it … |
| 4 | But you do n't expect rationality from such people . |
| 5 | So what , when you 're paying that much for the hi-fi you do n't expect sound quality you 'll get from a tape to tape , it 's thought , the sound quality is so crap you might as well just do it on a shit thing |
| 6 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 7 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They do not expect security guarantees . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He did not expect forgiveness . |
| 13 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |