Example sentences of "not expect [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Certainly she had not expected Felipe , and her tears stopped suddenly as she absorbed this new shock . |
| 3 | He had not expected Wang to be so upset , so patently indignant . |
| 4 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
| 5 | We can not expect Britain to influence the direction the Community takes in the next decade unless it is a full and enthusiastic member . |
| 6 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Given those characteristics we should not expect BBC and ITV viewers to be influenced in different ways . |
| 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 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 12 | Lawson says do not expect EMS news |
| 13 | She did not expect Diana to tell her friends or for Morton to be given any more secret details about the royals . |
| 14 | It is a sound maxim that you do not ask the barber whether you need a haircut , and if Prof Paulos is not a wholly disinterested party in matters of numeracy , you will certainly not expect Arno Penzias , a distinguished physicist and vice-president for research at the Bell Telephone Laboratories of AT&T , to be less than sanguine about the remorseless advance of information technology . |
| 15 | Joshua Morris , who was not expecting Felicity to join him until late afternoon , determined to spend the morning wandering the streets of central Brighton . |
| 16 | Good concept , bad timing , she says , not expecting Microsoft to deliver the scalable , rich operating system developers are looking for from them for ‘ at least three years , and more likely five . ’ |
| 17 | Stephen would have liked further education , though he had n't expected Oxford or Cambridge or even , say , Nottingham . |
| 18 | ’ 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 . |
| 19 | Their commitment to each other was made , after all , and she could n't expect Rohan to jettison every other aspect of his life in her favour . |
| 20 | Do n't expect Alan checked on you yesterday . |
| 21 | I did n't expect Pete home any special time . ’ |
| 22 | The council does n't expect Swindon to be ready for an assault on Britain in Bloom for some time , but it 's convinced all the effort 's worth it . |
| 23 | ‘ But you ca n't expect Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) to help us if we show we do n't trust him ! ’ |
| 24 | Isobel said , ‘ I do n't expect Peter minds as much as you do . ’ |
| 25 | He surely did n't expect Peter never to marry ? |
| 26 | Do n't expect Wills to be the perfect ruler |
| 27 | Do n't expect Wills to be the perfect ruler |
| 28 | Do n't expect Wills to be the perfect ruler |
| 29 | I do n't expect John Major to do so , but the TUC will . ’ |
| 30 | Doctors did n't expect John Fillon-Payoux to survive . |