Example sentences of "[not/n't] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He had not expected things to go like this . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman . |
4 | Certainly she had not expected Felipe , and her tears stopped suddenly as she absorbed this new shock . |
5 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |
6 | He had not expected Wang to be so upset , so patently indignant . |
7 | But we 've got to live by their rules and not expect privileges because we happen to be women . ’ |
8 | ‘ In India , ’ concludes the Mirza Nama , a gentleman ‘ should not expect intelligence and good behaviour from those who put big turbans on their heads . ’ |
9 | I tell you this because I know that I can not expect trust if I do not give it . |
10 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
11 | After Auschwitz , would you not expect Germans to take every conceivable care to stop German arms filtering through to where they could threaten Israel ? |
12 | And if a man permits his personal belief to distort , alter or transform historical fact , he can not expect others , whether or not they share his belief , to condone the process . |
13 | The committee do not expect members participating to be put to any expense or undue trouble , the proposal is merely to be an ‘ old boy ’ friend in a strange town or country . |
14 | He did not expect forgiveness . |
15 | Shieldaig did not expect visitors and there was no welcome for strangers . |
16 | We can not expect Britain to influence the direction the Community takes in the next decade unless it is a full and enthusiastic member . |
17 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
18 | He will not expect miracles , only a reasonable standard of proficiency . |
19 | In his inaugural address Konare warned that the country should not expect miracles ; although he wished to bring hope to the country , he said , he was not a " pedlar of illusion " . |
20 | He does not expect miracles from Lennie and is not at all surprised when Lennie forgets things , even though he gets angry at him . |
21 | We do not expect prices to rise generally for a further two years . |
22 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
23 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
24 | Recalled from America in 1806 by the Grenville–Fox government , Merry , a Pittite , did not expect reassignment . |
25 | He did not expect Osman openly to agree but he thought it quite likely that the Sheikh might indicate his willingness to accept Owen 's proposition . |
26 | But they surely did not expect Lothar to accept these terms . |
27 | Given those characteristics we should not expect BBC and ITV viewers to be influenced in different ways . |
28 | Do not expect equipment to withstand abuse , if it did it would be unaffordable . |
29 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
30 | We do not expect doctors to run an intensive care unit simply by measuring the pulse rates of their patients . |