Example sentences of "no [indef pn] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one expected otherwise than to get second- or third-hand stock on a train running between Weymouth and Bristol , or between Manchester Victoria and Leeds , or from Glasgow to Stranraer . |
| 2 | No one expected him to live . |
| 3 | No one expected to reverse the pull of 14 years of refugee resettlement overnight , and there is little doubt that voluntary repatriation would pick up speed if the Hong Kong authorities used quiet persuasion instead of the big stick . |
| 4 | With the Falklands War in 1982 — conventional warfare such as no one expected to see again — there surfaced memories that had never been buried very deep . |
| 5 | No one expected to achieve anything much after lunch , so the mood was languid and light-hearted , as though we were just pretending . |
| 6 | No one expected the pastoral Masai to go out to work en masse as agricultural labourers for the Europeans , and so their officers were spared the necessity of acting as labour recruiters — in itself enough to lighten the heart of any administrative officer in Kenya . |
| 7 | No one expected her to win — and is n't that what it 's all about , taking part ? — . |
| 8 | When it hit it was travelling at more than 400 miles an hour : no one expected it , and hundreds of Japanese living along the coasts of Hokkaido and Honshu were drowned . |
| 9 | No one expected an attack from there . |
| 10 | No one expected an attack . |
| 11 | On her fortieth birthday , in 1943 , she was taken to hospital for a cancer operation and no one expected her to live . |
| 12 | I think no one expected her to be . |
| 13 | And of course no one expected to hear much from him during his sabbatical year , unless , as you say , something was wrong . |
| 14 | It was tense and frustrating , but no one expected anything less . |
| 15 | With debut goalkeeper Tim Flowers in fine form , England came within 13 minutes of a victory that no one expected after World Cup disasters in Poland and Norway . |
| 16 | The River Ure around Langthorpe was badly affected by mid-week floods and no one expected much from a venue still out of sorts for Bradford 's closing fixture . |
| 17 | Abdesselam told the press on July 27 that the elimination of corruption remained a high priority and that " those who paid the price for the measures that have been taken so far are the youth … let no one expect me to make the deprived masses pay any more " . |
| 18 | Stuff of nightmares No one expects the life of a Peruvian gold prospector to be easy , but I doubt if many would expect to die from the bite of a rabid vampire bat . |
| 19 | No one expects limousine-comfort from a 137mph coupe but , even so , you do n't get much ride absorbency with either car . |
| 20 | No one expects this rump of a service to be viable . |
| 21 | Once workers have installed Britain 's new cable , no one expects that the country will want to replace it — at least not for a long time . |
| 22 | No one expects every one to hit these targets in the middle , but at least they should be in sight and the marksman should be provided with a gun that shoots straight . |
| 23 | No one expects an economic system to produce absolute justice . |
| 24 | No one expects a practitioner to have time for much theoretical musing or for large empirical studies . |
| 25 | No one expects the petition to amend the indenture to Barnes ' will to get a court hearing before June . |
| 26 | No one expects the editors to commit themselves before receiving a submitted paper , but some indication of the degree of pleasure with which a resubmission would be received would be welcome . |
| 27 | Justices must learn new skills and learn them quickly , although no one expects them to give judgments in the way that a judge does . |
| 28 | If someone pulls you out the river when you 're half drowning , you just lie on the bank coughing and spluttering , and no one expects you to say anything . |
| 29 | No one expects the Prime Minister to be here to vote on Friday 14 February , but will he tell the House and the country whether he supports the abolition of fox hunting , deer hunting and hare coursing ? |
| 30 | No one expects … ’ |