Example sentences of "did [not/n't] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Why had she come here to warn him if she did n't expect him to lie ? |
| 7 | I did n't expect him to come . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't expect him to pull out because the ball was there to go for . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | He 'd made it clear enough after all that he did n't expect her to hang about as he had another date . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Stephen did n't expect her to mope around while he was away on business . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't expect her to have a gun , ’ said Brian Kellerman , peering at the cottage , shielding his eyes from the driving rain . |
| 15 | I did n't expect her to stay so long , but I made the offer and I have to stick with it . |
| 16 | But you did n't expect me to go rummaging around in Paula 's diary , did you ? ’ |
| 17 | And that , as long as they did n't expect me to turn up to every committee meeting . |
| 18 | You did n't expect me to open it , did you ? ’ |
| 19 | Did her own work and did n't expect me to clear up after her . |
| 20 | They 've taken some very carefully set-up photographs with a big fucking camera and I suspect — from an aside or two they probably did n't expect me to understand — that these snaps will be the basis for some computer manipulation to see how well I fit the bill . |
| 21 | But this was an eastern European car so they did n't expect me to know the make . |
| 22 | as if you did n't expect me to have a brain in my head . |
| 23 | ‘ But you did n't expect me to come . ’ |
| 24 | but there were some of the things in there and I just did n't expect them to ask me , and it was n't in the book like . |
| 25 | And anything under five pounds well you did n't expect them to live . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw no point in trying to keep them apart , but I did n't expect them to spend so much time together . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , millions — he did n't expect them to accept . ’ |
| 28 | I could see that they did n't expect them to have much effect . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't expect them to have guns , ’ said Kellerman , gazing down at his stricken , companion . |
| 30 | I did n't expect them to eat the blue-green stuff — have you smelled it ? but I have a suspicion that it gets a toehold on spots where other algae are already in residence . |