Example sentences of "do [adv] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I would n't er I do n't expect most things will completely but anyway we 'll see . |
| 2 | Although I had been informed that the present French artists were low in merit , I did not expect to find them , with little exception , so totally devoid of it . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I did not expect that from you . ’ |
| 4 | the wreckage but did not expect to find anyone else alive . |
| 5 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 6 | Mr Smith said in an interview on BBC television 's On the Record that he did not expect his colleagues to ‘ spend and spend again' when they took office . |
| 7 | Although Sir Campbell did not expect the strong sales growth of the first half to continue , he anticipated satisfactory results for the full year . |
| 8 | He told Mr Justice Michael Davies and the jury he did not expect the Cossacks to be massacred without trial — the fate of many thousands . |
| 9 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 10 | Evidently he did not expect to give riotous or alcoholic parties at times when the tutor might be in . |
| 11 | The difficulty was that the evangelicals took a low view of the deans and chaplains of colleges , and did not expect that anything run by them would have force and challenge . |
| 12 | Alington allowed him and two other canons to introduce the daily sacrament on condition that they did not expect it to be part of the cathedral 's official usage . |
| 13 | Even in 1987 voters did not expect the return of a Labour or Conservative government to make a significant difference . |
| 14 | I did not expect to survive but miraculously I escaped and got out of the country . |
| 15 | She did not expect to be Prime Minister into the next millenium . |
| 16 | Though the Daily News has continued to publish without its workers , managers did not expect that the unions would persuade news-stands , sometimes with strong-arm tactics , to stop selling the paper . |
| 17 | She did not expect him to be ‘ faithful ’ , but he was . |
| 18 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 19 | SO Iran-contra did not happen much , except to certain people ; and even those people often felt caught up in events that were exceptionally odd and different , adventures they might have watched on television , and in which they especially did not expect to find themselves . |
| 20 | When Qaddafi abolished the state he did not expect Libyan society to collapse into fragments . |
| 21 | There is no final dividend and Young said it did not expect to make a payment for 1992 . |
| 22 | Since those who were politically important did not expect the occupant to remain there for long , they brusquely declined to listen to his requests for refurbishment . |
| 23 | I did not expect the greeting to be quite so enthusiastic . |
| 24 | Attlee did not expect to win the general election held on 5 July 1945 ( though the result was not declared until 26 July , to allow the votes of the Armed Forces to be garnered from around the globe ) . |
| 25 | He was very kind to both of us , and played with us in the days when older brothers did not expect to play with ‘ little kids ’ . |
| 26 | He did not expect domestic coal supplies to be insulated from world price trends — especially as government grants to the National Coal Board will have to rise over the next few years . |
| 27 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 28 | At least now we know it makes smaller patterns , which we did not expect to see . |
| 29 | The Duc de Choiseul did not expect to occupy England , much less incorporate it in Louis XV 's empire , but merely to distract his enemy from further conquests overseas and encourage an early peace . |
| 30 | Larger libraries were also more likely to want trainee supernumerary posts , perhaps because small libraries did not expect to be able to achieve this and therefore rarely mentioned it . |