Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] did not expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the time came she did not expect he would want to leave his shooting … |
| 2 | Officials insisted they did not expect a Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 3 | Prost , who claimed his 12th pole in 13 races this year , admitted he did not expect any special team orders to help him to his 52nd career victory . |
| 4 | Then came the day of joy when doctors at Newcastle upon Tyne General Hospital said they did not expect any more problems . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There is no final dividend and Young said it did not expect to make a payment for 1992 . |
| 7 | Society boss Geoffrey Lister said he did not expect any economic recovery in the immediate future . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sparrow said he did not expect to be the last chairman of the Levy Board , which assesses and collects contributions from bookmakers to finance racing . |
| 10 | Eddie Ramsay , managing director of the Powderhall greyhound track in Edinburgh , said he did not expect to lose much business if the bookmakers did extend their hours . |
| 11 | In an interview with The Scotsman in July last year , only weeks after he was diagnosed as having an inoperable bronchial tumour , Mr McTear , who smoked between 40 and 60 cigarettes a day for 30 years , said he did not expect to get anything out of the legal action . |