Example sentences of "do [adv] expect [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The man talked non-stop and did not expect me to contribute .
2 In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's .
3 Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ .
4 Not that Eliot harboured any illusions about the efficacy of his work — although Notes … was selling well , he did not expect it to have much influence .
5 When I move against them do not expect me to treat you differently from the way I treat them .
6 But do not expect me to understand , let alone share , your views .
7 Do not expect me to congratulate you , madam , I am too busy congratulating myself that I am not the father-in-law of a man who can speak so demeaningly of any young girl in public .
8 I am enclosing tickets for the new play and as they are in the front stalls , I may see you as I come on , ; but do not expect me to salute you , you understand , as I shall be taken up with my part .
9 The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas
10 They do not expect him to lose but can not quite see how he is going to win .
11 I do not expect you to agree with me on everything .
12 ‘ Ethel , ’ continued Miss Hardbroom , ‘ just because you happen to be an excellent scholar and one of the most helpful members of my class , I do not expect you to lie your way out of a situation when it has become awkward .
13 Although shareholders , we do not expect you to alter your currently successful business strategy .
14 I do not expect you to haggle , for example , but an element of bartering over hours and conditions can improve your working life considerably .
15 I do not expect you to understand . ’
16 It is clear from our analysis in the previous section that we do not expect the strange invariant set produced at r 13.926 to be stable and we do not expect it to show up in numerical simulations ; the behaviour described in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) above ( r } 13.926 ) can not be predicted from the purely local analysis .
17 A heated propagator will maintain a higher temperature than the ambient air , but do not expect it to achieve a lift of more than about 10°C ( ie , if you wish to maintain 21°C/70°F , the greenhouse should be heated to 10°C/50°F ) .
18 If you have come with a particular ache or pain , do not expect it to disappear straight away .
19 The shop was closed as the season was virtually over by now , and , although she did n't know what plan he had up his sleeve , she did n't expect him to do more than breeze in and out .
20 Why had she come here to warn him if she did n't expect him to lie ?
21 I did n't expect him to come . ’
22 ‘ I did n't expect him to pull out because the ball was there to go for . ’
23 He was quite an average sort of pupil , nothing out of the ordinary , and I certainly did n't expect him to become what he is today . ’
24 He 'd made it clear enough after all that he did n't expect her to hang about as he had another date .
25 Oh , she had n't missed Naylor 's eyes on her a time or two when she exchanged some comment with Travis — but surely he did n't expect her to ignore him !
26 I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers .
27 Stephen did n't expect her to mope around while he was away on business .
28 ‘ I did n't expect her to have a gun , ’ said Brian Kellerman , peering at the cottage , shielding his eyes from the driving rain .
29 I did n't expect her to stay so long , but I made the offer and I have to stick with it .
30 But you did n't expect me to go rummaging around in Paula 's diary , did you ? ’
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