Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did not expect the humour but I liked it , ’ said Alma Cox , of Leeds . |
| 2 | I did not expect the greeting to be quite so enthusiastic . |
| 3 | But as this is hunting country , I did n't expect a trap in the woods . |
| 4 | Although I did n't expect the floods to be as high as they were my friend , Matthew , and I had planned to go out in this American style canoe . |
| 5 | Before visiting the remote north , I had rather expected the folk there to be rough , uncouth , possibly even hostile . |
| 6 | ‘ I had n't expected the papers to pick up on Thomas 's birth , ’ she went on , ‘ but when they did and when it was taken for granted that he was Simon 's I let that be , too . ’ |
| 7 | What I had n't expected was the reaction we got here today which is that erm whilst there are smiling dis , he 's smiling now , there are smiling districts who might be pleased to be named as areas in which a major exception might be accommodated and I had n't expected the others would like a bit of it if there was one going too . |
| 8 | Even if I had n't expected the gunships , their colours would have told me what they were . |
| 9 | I had not expected the level of exposure , the narrowness of the arêtes , the commitment . |
| 10 | After all this high-profile imagery I had fully expected the Serenade to hit me with a physical force akin to Karajan 's classic BPO digital remake ( DG ) . |
| 11 | This enabled them to control the activities of people who did not expect the Navigation Acts to be taken seriously . |
| 12 | You did n't expect an answer straight away . |
| 13 | ‘ John Major has been consistently talking about the need to keep wages down so we did n't expect a pay award twice the level of inflation . ’ |
| 14 | We did n't expect the country we edged last year to look so much better than our team this summer . |
| 15 | ‘ We expected Uri to bend a few spoons but we did n't expect the viewers to bend the truth , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Officials insisted they did not expect a Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 17 | Rumour has it that most of them are unhedged at these levels : they did not expect the currency to rise this far . |
| 18 | They are not dissatisfied with the job content because they did not expect the job to be intrinsically rewarding . |
| 19 | I think Japan was taken by surprise — they did n't expect a tour at the time — but he just decided to do it . |
| 20 | They had n't expected the terrorists to turn up for at least another two days . |
| 21 | They had not expected the newcomer to speak so soon . |
| 22 | Viktor Chernomyrdin , the prime minister and leading Gosplanner , said before the referendum that he did not expect a majority to support Mr Yeltsin 's economic policies . |
| 23 | On Oct. 24 , 1990 , Attali said that he did not expect the EBRD , which had capitalization of ECU10,000 million ( US$12,400 million ) , to make a profit until 1992 . |
| 24 | But he did not expect the rice-flail , you know , the sticks joined by a chain . |
| 25 | He did not expect the lodger to return . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Gilmont said he did not expect the bank to lay off personnel as a result of increased EDI use ; rather , they would be redeployed to more ‘ value-added ’ jobs . |
| 28 | He told police he had not expected the fires to spread so quickly , and blamed hot summer weather . |
| 29 | He had n't expected a trip down to his daughter 's for lunch to end up in the middle of Exmoor . |