He is a tough negotiator. We did not expect to find him a pushover and he has not been one.

他是个难缠的谈判者。我们没有期望着能轻易将他说服，而他也证明了这一点。

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We did not expect you to be waiting for us here.

我们没想到你们会在这儿等我们。

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We did not expect that the girl would be brave enough to study abroad.

我们没有预料到这个姑娘有勇气出国去学习。

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[Bob,an American tourist who did not expect to see anything like this in London. "But,we're glad that we did.

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Obviously we did not expect to be hired by the Fund given the message we delivered.

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That is, we were not looking to create a controversy at Northridge when we wrote about the one at UCLA. We did not expect one, for two reasons.

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"We knew achieving peace would be difficult, we knew there would be provocations ... we did not expect them to happen in France, " said Tuncel, the Kurdish lawmaker.

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