Example sentences of "did [not/n't] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not expect the lodger to return . |
| 2 | But he did not expect the rice-flail , you know , the sticks joined by a chain . |
| 3 | This enabled them to control the activities of people who did not expect the Navigation Acts to be taken seriously . |
| 4 | He certainly did not expect the shock of a gunshot , cutting through the sounds of the grass . |
| 5 | Even in 1987 voters did not expect the return of a Labour or Conservative government to make a significant difference . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Rumour has it that most of them are unhedged at these levels : they did not expect the currency to rise this far . |
| 8 | ‘ I did not expect the humour but I liked it , ’ said Alma Cox , of Leeds . |
| 9 | I did not expect the greeting to be quite so enthusiastic . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Since those who were politically important did not expect the occupant to remain there for long , they brusquely declined to listen to his requests for refurbishment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They are not dissatisfied with the job content because they did not expect the job to be intrinsically rewarding . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ We expected Uri to bend a few spoons but we did n't expect the viewers to bend the truth , ’ he said . |
| 16 | We did n't expect the country we edged last year to look so much better than our team this summer . |
| 17 | The company troubled by problems of getting the database off the mainframe and running on local area networks and Unix , did n't expect the modifications to be so extensive . |
| 18 | I just did n't expect the doctor to see her quite so soon . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I certainly did n't expect the Warwickshire captaincy , as Bob was a very good skipper as well as being a very nice chap . |
| 20 | ‘ I genuinely did n't expect the team to be at the bottom of the Premier League . |