Example sentences of "[vb past] not expect the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Soviet Union had no forces in the region , or only token forces in the 1950s and 1960s it is likely that Soviet leaders did not expect the Western allies to take these early proposals altogether seriously . |
| 2 | Although Sir Campbell did not expect the strong sales growth of the first half to continue , he anticipated satisfactory results for the full year . |
| 3 | He was certainly not one of the ‘ tame ’ scholars and did not expect the young people to be so . |
| 4 | Managers did not expect the two pieces of equipment would compete with each other . |
| 5 | He did not expect the French empire to be reconstituted at the end of the war . |
| 6 | Whilst we did not expect the same standard of play we should have expected something better . |
| 7 | We had not expected the Prime Minister to look at her watch and say , ‘ I see it 's only eleven , so we have half an hour in hand . |
| 8 | I had not expected the twentieth century to show such a steep decline both in numbers and in quality , though I was less surprised to see the cultural importance of the nineteenth century . |