Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 He said er but of course the thing is they do n't expect elderly ladies to notice their car numbers and remember them .
32 He stated that he did not expect any hostility when he returned to London .
33 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 .
34 When Qaddafi abolished the state he did not expect Libyan society to collapse into fragments .
35 He had not expected colonial argot from such a source .
36 He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight .
37 The motorist is driving too fast because he does n't expect any children , or he expects them to be careful ’
38 Deutsche Bank Research says it does not expect northern EC members to revalue or devalue their currencies before the introduction of the single European currency .
39 The company says it does n't expect enough volunteers to come forward to cover the six hundred job losses announced yesterday but union policy is firmly against enforced lay-offs .
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