Example sentences of "[vb past] not expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abolitionists did not expect immediate conversion by slaveholders ; it was not necessary in so far as they were sure planters could not for long resist the economic imperatives . |
| 2 | I did not expect such kindness … |
| 3 | When Qaddafi abolished the state he did not expect Libyan society to collapse into fragments . |
| 4 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Owen , though , did not expect any difficulty . |
| 7 | No , and it says erm I really did not expect any Grace to answer . |
| 8 | Sixty per cent of 1800 managing directors interviewed did not expect any improvement either in sales or new orders and 80 per cent said that they would either not be recruiting new staff or shedding staff . |
| 9 | He stated that he did not expect any hostility when he returned to London . |
| 10 | It was humiliating , and she had not expected that kind of reaction from him . |
| 11 | He had not expected colonial argot from such a source . |
| 12 | She had accepted that she could not help loving him , but she had not expected this result . |