Example sentences of "[not/n't] expect [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whoever these men had been , they had not expected stone and stone had won the day against the metal of their more ferocious weaponry . |
| 2 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |
| 3 | ‘ In India , ’ concludes the Mirza Nama , a gentleman ‘ should not expect intelligence and good behaviour from those who put big turbans on their heads . ’ |
| 4 | I tell you this because I know that I can not expect trust if I do not give it . |
| 5 | He did not expect forgiveness . |
| 6 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 7 | Recalled from America in 1806 by the Grenville–Fox government , Merry , a Pittite , did not expect reassignment . |
| 8 | But they surely did not expect Lothar to accept these terms . |
| 9 | Do not expect equipment to withstand abuse , if it did it would be unaffordable . |
| 10 | The relatively liberal de Graaff had been replaced as Governor-General by de Jonge , a hardliner ( it was he who pronounced that Dutch rule would continue for another 300 years ) , and the Colonial Minister was H. Colijn , whose notorious book , Colonial Problems of Today and Tomorrow ( 1928 ) , had declared that the Indonesians could not expect self-government ‘ in the humanly foreseeable future ’ : indeed , he dismissed the notion that there was any Indonesia : ‘ The islands … are a unity for the reason that they compose the Netherlands Indies and for that reason alone . ’ |
| 11 | With a Basis Loan our proportion of the equity is normally 10–20% — and Barclays will not expect board representation . |
| 12 | One would not expect coral thickness exceeding 90 m ( 300 ft ) if only glacial control had been involved in the formation of coral islands . |
| 13 | Here the modest claim is made that without the social services , a section of the population will be permanently unemployed because in advanced industrial societies ‘ we can not expect industry to create many extra jobs because of the speed of technical change and job-saving investment . ’ |
| 14 | System builders that Microprocessor Report spoke to at Comdex last month said they did not expect volume production of Intel Corp 's Pentium chip until mid-1993 at best , suggesting the part has slipped another few months . |
| 15 | They do not expect security guarantees . |
| 16 | We may not expect consumer behaviour , right , to be the same at all prices and quantities basically but er , nevertheless , you will probably see more linear demand curves than nonlinear ones because they are somewhat simpler . |
| 17 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Lang can not expect co-operation or tolerance unless policies change and Downing Street shows a genuine willingness to respond to the Scottish people . ’ |
| 19 | As a well-known republican who had twice taken arms against Britain he could not expect clemency , and he was shot by a firing squad in Kilmainham gaol 5 May 1916 . |
| 20 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 21 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 22 | Did n't he think she was sophisticated enough not to expect commitment after a one-night stand ? |
| 23 | Married women who had not been receiving support from their husband when they were first interviewed , and were therefore not expecting support from him during subsequent crises , had a much reduced risk of depression if they received help from someone else whom they had named as very close at the first interview . |
| 24 | Jacob was not expecting forgiveness from his brother . |
| 25 | Interested parties are now not expecting quantity shipments of 40Mhz Sparc Vikings until the first quarter . |
| 26 | They leant against the gate , not expecting trouble as they joked between themselves . |
| 27 | We 're not expecting trouble from them and we 're there to help and direct them into the areas where they can get into the ground . |
| 28 | Nicholson 's customers are not price sensitive explains Tony , although he stresses that this is different to not expecting value for money . |
| 29 | She shouts that if I get soaked I need n't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't expect sympathy . |