Example sentences of "n't expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she had n't expected all three of them , not Patsy as well , and not the car . |
| 2 | ‘ I had n't expected all the containers in here to be emptied out , too ! ’ |
| 3 | Philip had n't expected that and it unnerved him . |
| 4 | " I had n't expected that . " |
| 5 | He had n't expected that . |
| 6 | We certainly had n't expected that ! |
| 7 | ‘ I must admit that I had n't expected such a prompt response to my advertisement . |
| 8 | He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight . |
| 9 | Probably they had n't expected this . |
| 10 | She had n't expected this . |
| 11 | She obviously had n't expected Jessamy to provide her with an excuse for staying longer at the house . |
| 12 | Trent had n't expected any , but took no pleasure in being proved correct . |
| 13 | She had n't expected any more extravagant praise . |
| 14 | If you plan to take part in a risky sport like skin-diving or hang-gliding , do n't expect automatic cover . |
| 15 | It 's not too tall , so you ca n't expect vast expansion potential — it has two 5.25-inch and one 3.5-inch free drive bays . |
| 16 | He said er but of course the thing is they do n't expect elderly ladies to notice their car numbers and remember them . |
| 17 | Besides its low-profile Object Group Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant Application Control Architecture Service application integration scheme , it thinks that COSE might like Habitat , its technology for enabling an operating system to take on the personality of another as it does with Unix System V.4 on its OSF/1 system — and it would n't expect fellow COSEs to implement it right away . |
| 18 | It would n't expect fellow COSEs to implement it right away . |
| 19 | Just in case you are thinking of shouting ‘ Help ’ as you run down the street , do n't expect immediate results . |
| 20 | If you decide to follow any of these suggestions , do n't expect immediate results . |
| 21 | You ca n't expect ordinary people in this situation to live like hermits , and it would be unreasonable to expect Charles and Diana to live like hermits . |
| 22 | Miss Cackle could n't expect ordinary guests to bring ladders with them , could she ? |
| 23 | Hungarian-born Mr Soros , 62 , told a London news conference : ‘ I do n't expect other people to make donations of this size . |
| 24 | No , we did n't sack anybody who worked in children 's homes , we did n't sack anybody who was at the front line of s services and we certainly did n't expect other people to pay for our circus tickets . |
| 25 | of our officers who work in children 's homes , we did n't sack anybody who was at the front line of s services and we certainly did n't expect other people to pay for our circus tickets . |
| 26 | The , councillor I am not passionate about getting rid of union representation , what I am passionate about is union members paying for their own representation , not me , not the people out there , if they want a full time union official let them pay for it but do n't expect other people to pick up the bill , it 's ludicrous er to er put that sort of money in our budget . |
| 27 | People did n't expect such violence and brutality . |
| 28 | Despite the instruction often given by teachers to emphasise personal involvement towards the end of an essay , you should avoid the sort of over-personalised ending found in this essay : After reading the first paragraph , I did n't expect such an exciting story , but gradually I got more and more involved in the narrative and finally overwhelmed by this splendid spectacle , which I could vividly visualise . |
| 29 | Everyone in the village is shocked , you do n't expect such things to happen in a quiet backwater . |
| 30 | I knew that response had been bad in our parish and I honestly did n't expect many young people to be there anyway . |